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...Roxy? And how come a Kirkland House junior had almost 600 hundred promotional bottles of Vitamin Water sitting in his room last spring, ready for distribution at parties and special events? As Friedman and Vandenberg are surely learning, Harvard’s regulation of corporate sponsorship allows for a vast gray area—and unless the JetBlue situation is an indication of a renewed vigilance in University Hall, student organizations will keep pairing up with outside companies, and making the deals that have become such a large part of their livelihood.SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLEFor their first collaborative promotion...
...increasingly dysfunctional institution. Nicole Boehler Tübingen, Germany The Refinery Crunch Matthew Yeomans' essay "refining the Problem" [Sept. 26] argued that building more refineries may alleviate the oil shortage. But we also need to tackle problems on the demand side. Developing countries such as India and China require vast quantities of oil, but they don't have a lot of energy-saving technology and aren't taking concrete steps to promote energy conservation. Our sources of crude oil are not everlasting. Governments must do their best to educate their people about the need to save energy. Citizens must play...
Severing his ties would allow Rove--who as deputy chief of staff runs a vast swath of the West Wing--to fight aggressively "any bull___ charges," says a source close to Rove, like allegations that he was part of a broad conspiracy to discredit Plame's husband Joseph Wilson. Rove's defense: whatever he did fell far short of that. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be seriously weighing a perjury charge for Rove's failure to tell grand jurors that he talked to TIME correspondent Matthew Cooper about Plame, according to a person close to Rove. Rove corrected himself...
...Western world made me uneasy [Oct. 3]. You described young Muslims as frustrated by lack of opportunities in Europe and motivated by the idea that the West is waging an assault on Islam. As a Pakistani student studying in the U.S., I would like to point out that the vast majority of Muslim youth in the West are working against ideas of jihadist violence and hatred...
...seeing a real grassroots movement organized around local abuses, and that's never happened in China's 25 years of reform," says Robin Munro of the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin, a workers' rights group. Campaigners are working in the one area where China has true democracy. The vast majority of villages are allowed to elect their local chiefs, although many elections remain improperly run or rigged. Activists hope to tilt the balance toward fairness...