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There is a grand, bipartisan New Hampshire tradition of truth-telling Jeremiahs taking the state by storm, from Estes Kefauver in 1952 to John McCain in 2000, but Lieberman seems to be a classic case of honor without profit. For one thing, Howard Dean locked up the maverick vote with his timely opposition to the war. For another, Lieberman's belief that removing Saddam Hussein would start a benign chain of events in the region seems imprudent now, given the deteriorating situation on the ground in Iraq. But there's something else about Lieberman--a sweet, soft, caramel quality--that...
Money-losing firms in the S&P are once again outperforming their moneymaking peers, up 65% vs. 26% so far this year. Fiber-optic-components maker JDS Uniphase, for instance has not turned a profit since 1996, although it did help devastate many a retirement account. Yet shares of JDS have climbed 54% this year...
That some Harvard factories could possibly operate as sweatshops is alarming and abhorrent. Membership in the WRC would go far in eliminating the human and worker rights violations that characterize the production of Harvard apparel now. Rather than continuing to profit off of rights abuses, Harvard should immediately join...
Just how does one convince profit-hungry corporations to reorganize their infrastructure all for the good of workers? Greider suggested that the burden to convince companies to change is shared in the community. That is, the corporation’s investors and the members of the community at large have a social responsibility to use their own stake and influence in the corporation to force change...
According to the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, a non-profit group promoting bike safety, a Boston-area study found that only 15 percent of cyclists were observed using lights...