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...This system would also end the inequitable distribution of dining costs. Under the current system, the most popular dinner foods often vanish by 6:30 p.m., leaving late eaters at an unfair disadvantage. Under a “privatized” HUDS system, students who want to hoard three dozen cookies will be forced to pay for their consumption. More likely, they will choose not to consume so many. Thus, those who truly value cookies will be able to get them, while those who simply want to abuse their access to the common food resources will be dissuaded...

Author: By Nikhil G. Mathews | Title: Capitalism for Dinner | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

...claims. It is unacceptable that students have to deal with lost items, unresponsive customer service, and slow insurance processing three months into the fall term. Collegeboxes needs to begin issuing refund checks immediately and to begin more exhaustive and urgent searches for students’ belongings. It would be unfair to blame Harvard for the losses, given that Kirkland’s renovations necessitated the use of an outside storage service. But since Harvard hired Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), which then subcontracted Collegeboxes, to provide summer storage for students, it bears some responsibility to advocate for fair and speedy remuneration...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Fighting for Futons | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...officials last week when he reiterated China's claim to the eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh during a TV appearance, noting it was "Chinese territory" and that China claims the "whole of that" state, which it calls Southern Tibet. Beijing has also complained that Delhi is throwing up unfair barriers to investment by snarling Chinese companies in bureaucratic red tape, and chafed at a decision to bar a company linked to the Chinese military from taking up a lucrative air cargo contract, apparently over security concerns. And, of course, China remains a close ally of Pakistan, India's archenemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind China and India's Awkward Courtship | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

...virtually no oversight of the violence-prone alluvial-mining sites. Many stones have made their way out of the jungle and into suburban malls via somebody's lower intestinal tract. Even when the diamonds are not smuggled or traded for guns, the wages for the miners can be outrageously unfair. I met a team of diggers in the Central African Republic who were routinely paid $200 for large-carat diamonds that would easily retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Viewpoint: So, Should You Buy a Diamond? | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

Undergraduate Council President John S. Haddock ’07 said that though many of the restrictions were “unfair and unnecessary,” students made the most of the tailgate...

Author: By John R. Macartney and Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: College Pulls Off Tame Tailgate | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

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