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...infringing upon [students’] rights as consumers,” jealously guarding its “monopoly,” and “tarnishing [its] image in the mind of the College community,” one commentator lamented. The latent anti-Coop sentiment was clear: Harvard students deserved to pay less for course books, and the campus bookstore should not stand in their...
...This sentiment, however, both vainly ignores the value of the Coop’s unique service as well as risks making students sound like spoiled brats. Indeed, the Coop’s markup on course books is noticeable if not obscene: an abbreviated visit to the textbook bazaar will sufficiently validate many of the complaints. The discrepancy between publishers’ list and the Coop’s retail prices may often call into question at least the business sense, if not the integrity, of the bookstore’s proprietors. If nearly everyone acknowledges the price-gouging, why would...
...missing, they launched a massive media campaign that was endorsed by celebrities - billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson this week started a McCann defense fund with around $200,000 of seed money - and they even got a meeting with the Pope. The YouGov poll indicated that some of the anti-McCann sentiment in the U.K. is a negative response to their self-generated publicity...
...support national and international security policies that protect those who are defenseless and provide a free voice for all with a dedication to providing ethical, efficient, and effective turnkey solutions that positively impact the lives of those still caught in desperate times.” While vague, the sentiment has strange echoes of the one that can be found on the Department of Defense Web site, which states, in part, that the primary task of “the military departments is to…perform warfighting, peacekeeping and humanitarian/disaster assistance tasks.”The question...
...asking questions. These are "rallies," not "town halls," though McCain has often said he prefers the give-and-take, and surprises, that come with opening up the floor to the audience. His says that's where he shines as well, but in New Hampshire, in particular, where anti-war sentiment runs high, an open forum could pull McCain off of his carefully crafted message. In Concord, he says he'll take questions if there's time. A young man approaches him and says, in the slightly quavering voice of someone not used to speaking in public, "I was in Iraq...