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When the director of Harvard Dining Services, Michael P. Berry, announced that he was thinking about serving Pepsi instead of Coca-Cola in College dining halls, students were up in arms. Irate over a potential connection to PepsiCo, whose ties to a military regime in Burma have been heavily criticized by human rights activists, students poured two-liter bottles of Pepsi over the steps of Widener Library and begged Berry to think twice before switching to Pepsi...
...PepsiCo Inc. may reexamine its policy on investing in Burma as a result of pressure by human-rights activists on college campuses across the country...
...soda giant's decision comes after months of controversy over the fate of fountain drinks on campus after Harvard Dining Services (HDS) made an agreement and subsequently canceled a contract with PepsiCo...
...PepsiCo, which owns Taco Bell and Pizza Hut as well as Pepsi-Cola, has been widely criticized for its investments in Burma, a military dictatorship with a questionable human rights record...
...Carvey Show," he says. "The idea came off of sports shows like the Doritos Cotton Bowl." Actually, it was the Mobil Cotton Bowl, so maybe in-show product placement isn't as effective as advertisers hope. At any rate, Carvey isn't quite the "whore" his show alleges. Though Pepsico pays ABC extra for the special treatment, "if they were paying me more, I wouldn't do it," Carvey says, adding that he okayed the deal only after Pepsico "agreed to have no input into the show...