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...more tangible legal theories could pose a serious threat to the food firms. One is based on deceptive advertising, the other on aggressive marketing to children. Plaintiffs' lawyers are looking at school-board contracts that give big soda companies exclusive placement in school vending machines in return for cash payments. School boards from Seattle to New York City are reconsidering their partnerships with soda vendors. Thanks in part to the publicity generated by the initial lawsuit against McDonald's, "there has been a shift in perception," said Marion Nestle, chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies...
...don’t tell” debate—a fact that goes unmentioned in the defense chief’s letter. The Pentagon threatened to block hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to Harvard unless the Law School let military recruiters use its career placement office. Summers said in September that the military’s policy toward gay and lesbian service members was “corrosive.” And Harvard joined six other universities in filing a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that schools had a First Amendment right to exclude military...
Also important is placement. On the basis of his own research and existing studies of how people read, Rapp says the most valuable real estate on a two-panel menu (one that opens like a magazine) is the upper-right-hand corner. That area, he says, should be reserved for more profitable dishes since it is the best place to catch--and retain--the reader's gaze...
...recruiters equal access to campuses or give up grants from several federal agencies. Harvard would lose more than $400 million a year.The HLS nondiscrimination policy—adopted in 1979, the same year Roberts received his JD—requires recruiters who use the school’s career placement office to pledge that they will not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. The military has refused to sign the pledge. Although Law School Dean Elena Kagan granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy this past September, Harvard has continued to fight the Solomon Amendment. Harvard...
Kappes would rejoin a CIA that has changed considerably since he quit in November 2004 after a management dispute with Porter Goss, Hayden's predecessor. Earlier in 2004, Kappes had suggested to Congress that the CIA boost overseas spy placement about 10% by 2010, says a person familiar with his proposal. But after Kappes said he was quitting, President Bush ordered a speedy 50% boost in the spy corps. And officials say that Goss, in his 18 months, increased postings abroad nearly 20% while opening or reopening nearly 30 CIA offices around the world...