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...overfishing in recent years has depleted stocks. U.S. Customs efforts to enforce a 24-nation treaty preventing pirated fish from reaching market are not working, they say. Chilean sea bass can grow to 10 ft. and as much as 200 lbs., but poachers are known to harvest the high-profit fish at just 7 lbs. Wholesale prices for sea bass have doubled over the past four years, and U.S. Customs last year seized more than 35 tons of the fish caught by poachers. But the U.S. State Department, responding to the boycott, issued a release last week reassuring the public...
Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and his Reparations Coordinating Committee have announced they may sue a number of corporations because of their historical profit from slavery. The defendants may include such august institutions as Yale University, Brown University and our own Harvard. This lawsuit is modeled on the lawsuits brought by the families of Jewish victims of the Holocaust against companies such as Swiss and Austrian banks...
Once upon a time, in the land of corporate America, there was a giggling girl who had a dream that her popularity as a musician would not owe itself to partnerships with profit-minded conglomorates. And so she stuck her tongue out at the powerhouses of big business, packed her car with a box of home-made tapes and hit the road...
...notifying students of new services, for-profit or not, the council is helping to fulfill its aim of improving students’ quality of life. Small startups and especially student entrepreneurs do not always have enough money to advertise on a large scale, yet students should still be able to find out about their often-essential services...
...government sued the New York Times for publishing an advertisement condemning bombings of Cambodia by the Nixon administration. Under current regulations, this ad would be deemed a criminal act, especially if published close to election. The law would allow for effective control of promotions made by non-profit and advocacy organizations...