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Frustrated by Japan's defiance of the IWC--and the nation's insistence on hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica--Greenpeace led a campaign this year to boycott goods sold by companies with a stake in Kyodo Senpaku, including Nippon Suisan Kaisha, better known as Nissui. The $4.3 billion conglomerate owns Gorton's, one of the largest suppliers of frozen seafood in the U.S. Late last month Kyodo Senpaku abruptly announced that Nissui and four other firms that held a stake in the company would donate their shares to "public interest" corporations, including the ICR. The firms...
...million Amount paid by media entrepreneur Robert Sillerman for an 80% stake in legendary boxer Muhammad Ali's name, image and likeness...
Given the scale of the resentment, will any vote held under such conditions be considered acceptable? One key will be to assure Sunni leaders that they will have a stake in the new political order. "The level of violence does not preclude elections," says a Western diplomat in Iraq. "I'm not hitting the panic button on this yet." In any case, the election will be less about U.S.-style campaigning than back-room haggling, with the goal of putting together a fairly representative government that can slowly win legitimacy. "Democracy is a new concept in Iraq," says a State...
...College. The long term situation as it stands is ambiguous and unsettling. We hope that in the coming weeks, the College and the UC can hammer out a long term plan for financing the social programming board—whether that will include continued reliance on gifts, a stake in the current termbill fee, or the building of a social programming endowment needs to be made clear. In the interim, the UC will have roughly $70,000 extra to spend that previously went toward CLC social programming. We are glad that House Comittee’s and student groups...
America’s fundamental credibility on democracy is at stake in our response to Hamas. Respecting unwelcome yet democratic outcomes is part and parcel of supporting democracy. If reform, development and exchange programs are curtailed or cut off because of Hamas’s victory, it will not only weaken Palestinian moderates relative to Hamas—it will further endanger America’s credibility as a supporter of democracy in the Middle East and around the world...