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...reduce the risk of another round of panic selling, Saks and other retailers have ordered up to 20% less inventory for this holiday season. "You clearly aren't going to see the kind of discounting that you saw last year," says Sadove, although he doesn't rule out 70%-off sales being held at the end of the season if there's inventory left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailers Gear up for Black Friday | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...Buzz,” “Rubik’s Cubes,” “DinoParmFish” and “Set,” which incorporated math in more creative ways. The tournament ended with the “Guts” round, which involved students running around and doing problems in groups of four...

Author: By EESHA D. DAVE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revenge of the Nerds | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...soccer team is going into this weekend’s match as the underdog. The Crimson (9-6-1, 6-1 Ivy) will take on No. 7 Boston College (15-3-2, 7-3-1 ACC) tomorrow at 4 p.m. in Newton, Mass. in the first round of the NCAA tournament...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eagles Loom Large in Tourney Matchup | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...having citizens complain to your superiors is not good for the careers of Chinese officials. Local and regional governments arrange teams of "retrievers" who round up petitioners before they can put their complaints before higher authorities. The petitioners are held in black jails - which could be anything from a hotel to an empty school - for weeks or even months before being sent home. Human Rights Watch interviewed 38 former black-jail detainees who described beatings, sleep deprivation and lack of food and medical care. A black-jail guard went on trial in Beijing this month for allegedly raping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Report Released on China's 'Black Jails' | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...death while in police custody. Sun, who had been stopped for not carrying his temporary-residence certificate, was detained under a system known as "custody and repatriation." That system, a series of detention centers as well as the legal framework to hold people on administrative charges, was used to round up vagrants, beggars and petitioners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Report Released on China's 'Black Jails' | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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