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...revenue into hard currency, PepsiCo buys agricultural goods in Burma and sells them on the international market. These goods may be the products of forced labor farms that are common in Burma, but PepsiCo will not acknowledge its sources. Other companies have pulled out of Burma by now; Levi-Strauss, for example, pulled out in 1992, saying that "it is not possible to do business in [Burma] without directly supporting the military government and its pervasive violations of human rights...
...charts, success is fun but not essential. "It's thrilling to have a pop hit," says Watt. "But I'd got used to our life as an underground band." Not surprising, since he and TRACEY THORN have been recording since 1982. In 1992, when Watt nearly died of Churg-Strauss syndrome, an autoimmune disease that can affect the lungs and intestines, they reassessed everything. One result: Missing. Now the album's moving too, but Watt can cope: "The up-and-down nature of success keeps you sane...
Both versions still have more to offer than poignancy and politics, but not from the tales themselves. Rather the anthology serves as a description of memory and how memory is adapted, treated and socialized. Like Levi-Strauss recording folklore, Masters was preserving in writing an oral history that would have continued to transform itself over the years beyond recognition of its original form or died out altogether had he not interceded. How residents of Spoon River handled memory is the most trenchant aspect of the Nora Theater's current production...
Santa will also recognize some of the less well known Harvard athletes. The intramural teams of Cabot House are well on their way to winning the Strauss Cup for the second consecutive year. Santa will give Cabot House an altar on which to place the Strauss Cup so that all other house intramural teams may worship...
Last year, for the first time Cabot House won the Strauss Cup, the award for intramural athletic competition, which measures participation as well as achievement. Emanuela Striedter, 63, helped lead the charge by winning many intramural tennis matches...