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...another village 20 miles away, Polish entrepreneurs are carrying on a lively trade in rubber dinghies that will ferry migrants across the Oder River to Germany. Farther south, the activities of similar "travel agencies" directed or supervised by criminal gangs crowd the towns along the Czech- & German border. Pilsen is so jammed with migrants from Bosnia and Croatia that its native Czech residents call it "Yugoslav City." That is partly a misnomer because while many of those in transit are from war-ravaged segments of the former Yugoslavia, other thousands are Bulgarians, Romanians, Turks and Russians. All of them, though...
...told to ask no more questions about the matter. And of course years later I realized that he had been our man, our informant, inside the ring that we had penetrated. Therefore I was actually simply part of his cover story. All they wanted me to do was rubber-stamp him so he could get on with his life again...
...worked. In May, after a motion by Professor of English and Comparative Literature Barbara E. Johnson, the Faculty finally voted to accept the report's recommendations, paving the way for Rudenstine's eager rubber stamp...
...Harvard governance bodies--The President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers--are reduced to the position of a mere rubber stamp of the administration, the only source of their information. Yet each member of these two governing bodies is liable for dereliction of fiduciary duty and gross negligence. They risk losing at least $1 million a day for Harvard...
...anchovies in the Pacific. The United Nations and World Bank sponsored the Tropical Forestry Action Plan to sustain forests, but instead the plan spurred further deforestation. When asked by an environmentalist what he meant by sustainable, a World Bank agronomist replied, "Fifty years of timber production." Even the rubber tappers of Brazil's Amazon rain forest, who along with their martyred leader, Chico Mendes, became symbols of the sustainable use of tropical forests, overexploit their ecosystem. Writing in the journal BioScience, John Browder notes that in search of food and sources of cash, these seringueiros can kill off wildlife...