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...company?s negotiations for favorable treatment for its Florida theme parks from that state?s governor, one Jeb Bush. Harvey Weinstein, co-chair of Miramax, is now trying to buy the film back from Disney and to fashion his own coalition of the willing - other distributors happy to profit from Disney?s timidity. The result of this internal agita will be to raise the profile and, most likely, the profitability of Moore?s film, which he still hopes will open on the July 4th weekend...
...drive up prices for many commodities, such as metals, by 50%. But prices have been falling for several weeks, to the delight of many. Jeffrey Sheu, spokesman for Taiwan-based bicycle maker Giant Manufacturing, applauds China's efforts to rein in the economy, because rising materials costs have eroded profit margins. Not only that, Giant, which operates three factories on the mainland and sells to Chinese consumers, hopes that tougher lending rules will prevent additional entrepreneurs from entering the business. "The bicycle industry in China is overcrowded, with too may competitors and too much price competition," he says...
...plan to profit off these courses explains another mystery from the review: What professor would ever agree to teach a course whose syllabus resembles a badly designed 6th-grade social studies class (as with the report’s example “cultures and contacts” course which will miraculously scamper through “multiple centuries and continents” by covering “significant moments…in which civilizations interacted in cooperative or competitive ways”—in a semester)? The answer is not too hard to guess when that professor...
...council allocated $700 to sponsor “Tickets for Tutors.” The non-profit organization received 1,200 free tickets to this fall’s football games so that Harvard student tutors can bring their tutees...
PBHA is a student-led non-profit organization that is independent from the College, but is required to report to the College; PSN is an umbrella group that encompasses the Center for Public Interest Careers and about 30 public service groups that are not affiliated with PBHA, including City Step and Project HEALTH...