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...that taxpayer position. That’s right: bend over.”When he’s not performing a show, Newell is willing to talk about the American penal system or “slave labor” in America with anyone who wants to listen. The topic of American injustices has kept him in Harvard Square for almost two decades, he says.Despite the issues of governmental schemes and illegal drug use that run through Newell’s show, he has still managed to win over his juvenile viewers, who, according to Newell, have sometimes asked...
...This is progress, however modest. In the past, the vast majority of Chinese companies single-mindedly focused on growth and profit, heedless of the impact their activities had on the environment and communities. Things began to change a few years ago, when "social responsibility went from being a topic pushed on China by others to one it took on as its own," says Zhou Weidong, who runs the China branch of the U.K.-based NGO Business for Social Responsibility. Zhou and others largely credit the government for pressuring companies to contribute to a "harmonious society," Beijing's catchphrase for promoting...
Sean Palfrey, the co-master of Adams House, said that the topic was broached at the most recent Masters’ meeting last week and that there was a “hardy consensus” among the masters...
...interviewed him for my thesis, but we quickly got off-topic. “What is a Jew?” he asked...
...voted for George W. Bush, and that fact was no secret to him or his staff. But he reached out to me, and to others in the faith community across the political spectrum, because we shared a common concern. I was impressed by that, and by the topic of gathering down in Austin...