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...addition to Nike, Columbia/HCA and Occidental Petroleum, Harvard invests in Elf Aquitaine, TRW, Tyson Foods and American Electric Power, companies which the Multinational Monitor alleges are involved in improprieties including bribery, international coups or maintaining substandard working conditions...
Perhaps more starting than the statistics are the stories of some substandard housing residents and homeless families--several of whom will speak at today's press conference...
...Dick in extremis. The brilliantly realized visual effects are invisible and persuasive. The digitized water looks like real water; the computer blobs look like human beings tumbling down to their deaths from the severed ship's nearly vertical stern. But the narrative events that should add emotional heft are substandard action tropes: kids in jeopardy, bad guys menacing pretty women, Jack manacled to a water pipe. "I'll just wait here," he says gamely, and idiotically, as Rose runs for help...
Grassi said that Russell Field, the current home for the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School football team, has "substandard conditions without bathroom facilities...
...right things, like small reading classes. Taking local control away from nonperforming schools also seems to work. The heads of the school systems in New York City and Chicago have both done this recently, with good results. The only way to make sure no American child gets a substandard education is to guarantee, nationally, that every child gets a good...