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...Columbia University students were arrested December 2 in the school’s Ruggles Hall for allegedly committing a hate crime in which they drew graffiti of swastikas, racial epithets, and homophobic symbols on the walls of a suite. Sophomore Stephen Searles told police that he and junior Matthew Brown used red and purple markers to deface the walls of a Ruggles suite, according to reports in the Columbia Spectator and in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Searles attended high school in Bozeman, Mont. “We were drunk and we wrote anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls...
...purpose to it. So does business, only it's been taught that it doesn't, that its only purpose is to maximize profits." Critics say, however, that when profit is the sole measure of performance, managers can be held eminently responsible. "In a nutshell, the problem with CSR," says Stephen Bainbridge, a corporate-law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, "is that managers who are responsible to all of their constituencies are accountable to none...
Bottled-water producers say they are being unfairly singled out. The Maine and Michigan proposals "penalize an industry that is producing a clean, safe, healthy product," says Stephen Kay, spokesman for the International Bottled Water Association. He notes that bottled water accounts for less than 1% of the groundwater used every year. Irrigation is by far the biggest user. "That's true but irrelevant," says Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a water research group in Oakland, Calif. Any large groundwater withdrawal from one site risks drying up wells and wetlands in that area, he says...
...mail showing that he had spoken with Cooper. As Luskin tells it, his talk with Novak led him to a new search for evidence that Rove had been in contact with Cooper. That turned up an e-mail Rove had sent, shortly after speaking with Cooper, to Stephen Hadley, then Deputy National Security Adviser, telling Hadley about the conversation. Cooper later testified about his version of the chat last July, but only after receiving a specific waiver from Rove and after a costly battle by Time Inc. to keep Cooper's notes from Fitzgerald. Norman Pearlstine, Time Inc.'s editor...
...bells generally drowned out University politics for the day, though some who attended the reception were quick to note which faculty members had and had not been invited. The English and American Literature and Language Department was well represented last night, with appearances by James Engell, the department chair; Stephen J. Greenblatt, the Cogan University professor; and Louis Menand, the Bass professor of English. On Summers’ academic side of the aisle were Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, the Lee and Allison professors of economics. The pair are on leave this academic year. Most professors, however, were...