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...fact that it’s coming up soon provides a good reason for this particular avenue of activism.” SLAM’s spring initiative will follow in the tracks of activism that led to the decision of at least ten other colleges to drop their contracts with Coke. Michigan and New York University most recently declined to renew their contracts, garnering nationwide media coverage. According to Usmani, SLAM will likely focus on persuading HUDS not to renew its contract with Odwalla, which is “the best we could hope for here...
...Hotel Cristallo's history reads like a rock star's autobiography: there's the sudden success, the fame, the adulation, the troubled times, the seemingly unstoppable decline. And, inevitably, the comeback. Ten years after the Cristallo closed its shutters, the veteran sashayed back onstage, looking more glamorous than ever. That was in 2001, and the luxury five-star hotel in the Italian ski resort of Cortina is still rocking its clientele. "We loved the idea of starting again," says Paola Gualandi, whose entrepreneurial clan now owns the Cristallo. "And Cortina is very popular and upscale - everybody wants to be here...
...Mark Hulett is, by most definitions, a bad person; he had sexual contact with a six-year-old girl until she turned ten. Sadly, Hulett is also mentally retarded, with an I.Q. between 75 and 85 and no understanding of why his conduct was considered inappropriate. In fact, he was invited to sleep in the same bed with his victim by her parents...
...time we dropped the act. We weren’t lazy in getting here, so we shouldn’t be lazy about our sports once we’re enrolled here. It’s not too much to ask for someone to take the five or ten minute walk to the facilities when sports are so much of the culture of college life. Yes, every college’s life. Yes, even at Harvard...
...anybody assumed Iran would blink in its dangerous standoff with the West, they were wrong. Ten days ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted overwhelmingly to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. In response, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a defiant speech last Saturday to tens of thousands of Iranians marking the 27th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Repeating that Iran "will not forgo its irrefutable right" to develop nuclear energy, Ahmadinejad warned that Iran may even withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the IAEA-policed pact defining the rules of peaceful nuclear energy programs...