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...class ring drama. Last Sunday, the council had an extensive debate on whether to give one ring company an exclusive deal on Harvard class rings. The proposal passed, so next year’s council representatives will likely be hawking class rings on behalf of a large, for-profit company. Granted, Harvard Student Agencies (HSA)—the official ring vendor of the original bill, and now likely to be the one chosen by the council—is itself nonprofit. But it will almost certainly be contracting the ring-making out to a company that will reap large...
...with the global jihadi cause, analysts believe Hamas had previously rebuffed efforts to draw it directly into the al-Qaeda orbit. Some in the organization have advocated attacking American targets, but their position has been in the minority. Hamas leaders had wanted to maintain their independence and also to profit from the wider Arab sympathy engendered by its position as an exclusively Palestinian-national movement targeting the Israelis (as opposed to becoming just another local chapter of Osama bin Laden's global jihad). The movement's headquarters is in Damascus, which despite its frosty relations with the U.S. remains deeply...
...kind of pain came last week, when Tilden learned of the arrest of Henry Reid, the director of the UCLA willed-body program, and Ernest Nelson, a former mortuary worker. Reid was arrested on suspicion of grand theft, and is thought to have illegally sold body parts for profit from some 500 cadavers in the UCLA cooler--Kim's possibly among them--to Nelson, who was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen property. Nelson, who used a power saw to dismember the bodies, says he paid $700,000 for the parts and received fees to transfer them to research labs...
...parts are being sold for profit, it's mostly because it's such an easy thing to do. Each year, up to 8,000 donors in the U.S. may leave their bodies to science, and while most people like to think of their mortal remains being gently dissected by respectful medical students, the fact is that cadavers might just as easily be sawed apart and scattered to pharmaceutical companies and biotech firms, or even used as flesh-and-blood crash-test dummies. The only hard rule, by federal law, is that under no circumstances may anyone profit from the transaction...
Sooner or later, the lure of profit will steel the nerves. "If there is business here, if there are contracts to be had, people will come," says Stephen Orr, 41, from Mill Valley, Calif. A former assistant vice president at Merrill Lynch, Orr has spent months in Iraq helping the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce organize an international trade fair, Destination Baghdad Expo, which is scheduled to take place in the city next month. Only about 20 U.S. companies, including General Electric and Motorola, have registered. Orr suspects that many companies are discreetly sending Iraqi representatives to seek out contracts...