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...effective spearhead of the fight against the government's IR laws. Combet won the admiration of Labor's grassroots for his role in the 1998 docks dispute and in winning compensation for asbestosis sufferers from multinational James Hardie. He is making his political debut at this election, contesting a safe seat in New South Wales' Hunter Valley...
...leader, Shorten shot to national prominence as the public face of efforts to rescue two trapped miners in Tasmania last year. He's young, smart, articulate - and well-connected on both sides of politics: his wife is the daughter of former federal Liberal M.P. Julian Beale. Running for a safe Labor seat, he is destined for a ministry...
...Faculty voted at its meeting this past Tuesday to put the kibosh on a motion by anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, which resolved, “that this Faculty commits itself to fostering civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” With such a blow to free speech, the Faculty have put their imprimatur on the death spiral of dissent on this campus...
...involves checking e-mail no more than twice a day. Maybe it's worth taking the test: Do our devices really make us more efficient or less so? Do they bind us--or isolate us, becoming screens against intimacy and contact, zoom lenses that let us operate from a safe distance so that we seem closer than we really are? One suspects that trying to cut back may only teach us how attached we've become, at least to our gizmos. Like our children, they are little miracles, whose workings we can't really understand, as they make our lives...
...Sudan, which is accused of genocide in Darfur. While PetroChina and CNPC are technically separate entities, Bakker argues that there is enough evidence of asset flow and overlap in management to suggest that they are not independent. “PetroChina was created to be seen as a safe investment separate from CNPC, when in actuality the two are not completely independent, a fact that Harvard recognized in its divestiture,” Bakker said. Harvard divested from PetroChina in April 2005. CNPC owns 88 percent of PetroChina. Seventy percent of Sudan’s oil revenues, for which CNPC...