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...banks have only $6 billion on loan to debt-ridden Africa, the most depressed part of the developing world. But the 42 countries of sub-Saharan Africa owe a total of $80 billion, mostly to foreign governments and organizations like the World Bank. Because of the low prices that African nations are receiving for such key exports as coffee, tea and oil, they cannot import enough food for their drought-stricken populations, much less make payments on foreign debt...
...three-member CCSR, the only group with the power to veto Harvard’s investments on ethical grounds, is a sub-committee of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing board...
...first blow in the one-two punch that brought porn into the open was a 1969 documentary, Pornography in Denmark, from the sexologists Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, the sub-Kinseys of their day. As filmmaker John Waters recollects: "Pornography in Denmark got around the law because it was a 'serious documentary,' right? It was supposedly 'socially redeeming,' but it showed penetration.... It was a big deal because after that there was no turning back. That's the day exploitation films ended -the way Andy Warhol ended Abstract Expressionism in one night by that soup can, the way the Beatles ended...
...receptiveness of the establishment to the outlaw sub-art in the early and middle 70s was evident at the two major film festivals I took part in, Cannes and New York. In Cannes' unofficial sidebar, known as the Market, Mary and I saw Behind the Green Door, Lasse Braun's Sensations, Max Pecas' Dictionary of Sex and Metzger's Score, where, after a screening of the film's soft-core version, we were invited to stay for an alternate final reel featuring hard-core sex. (Metzger went on to direct one more arty hard-core, the excellent Paris-shot...
...Center, which opened in the Washington suburbs in 2003, was plagued by mismanagement and overspending. The report charges that some of the $500,000 listed under "equipment and tools" was spent on silk plants and decorative artwork. And in addition to outfitting the building's four kitchenettes with swanky Sub-Zero refrigerators, the report cites 58 cases in which the project manager allegedly circumvented government spending rules by splitting credit-card transactions so that each would come in under a limit of $2,500. None of the officials accused are still with the agency...