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Human-rights campaigners, however, welcome Hollywood's focus on the issue and say it has helped tighten industry oversight even before the film's release. In the run-up to the holiday period--peak season for diamond sales and blockbuster movies--the public spat makes an interesting study of how a big studio movie can threaten a $60 billion-a-year global retail industry, one that has previously thrived on its association with all things Hollywood, and how that business can fight back...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council passed legislation yesterday to tighten oversight of its party fund. Effective immediately, all grants distributed by the UC will be audited by its Finance Committee. Currently, only 20 percent of the 13 grants handed out every weekend are checked against receipts. The UC allocates nine $100 regular party grants and four $200 “super-party” grants each week. The legislation comes in response to increased criticism of the UC’s party fund and worry within the UC that grants are being misused. Earlier this month, students who showed...
...students. The UC has a list of reasonable regulations that a party must meet to be funded, including that it must be advertised. But incidents like the Cabot N-33 fraud—a blatant example, but hardly the only one—demonstrate that the UC needs to tighten its oversight. Right now, 20 percent of party grant recipients are audited and required to produce receipts. These receipts are scrupulously checked for costs and dates of purchase, but the other 80 percent are never even seen. While it would be ideal if we could rely on students?...
...noninvasive technologies that produce natural-looking results and let patients get back to work quickly. On the table: tools that use radio frequencies (Thermage), plasma gas (Portrait), infrared light (Titan), light-emitting diodes (GentleWaves), pulsed light (Palomar Medical Technologies' Lux system) and lasers (Fraxel, Vbeam) to smooth out and tighten the skin and soften the appearance of wrinkles. Syneron's eMax uses radio frequencies and light energies and costs about $175,000. According to Shiu-Yik Au, an analyst for Millennium Research Group, the market for aesthetic medical equipment will top $400 million this year, a 30% increase from...
...proportion of its food imports come from China. And the lion's share of that trade has long passed through Dandong. Just how stringently China will impose sanctions directed at North Korea's weapons program and an undefined category of "luxury goods" - and more importantly, whether it chooses to tighten the screws on commodities not covered by the sanctions, such as oil and food supplies - will go a long way to determining the future of the baby-faced dictator in Pyongyang. So far, say traders, Dandong residents and others involved in the cross-border commerce say it's been largely...