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...prospect of a secret trial and the possibility of lifetime sentences. Now that the government will only charge them with using "improper means" to gain access to commercial secrets - commercial bribery - the executives will have access to legal counsel and should be able to mount a defense. Sam Walsh, the iron-ore chief executive for Rio, went so far as to say that since "the charges have been downgraded ... I think that reflects what we've been saying all along: that we don't believe there's any evidence of wrongdoing...
...have detailed knowledge of the specific charges likely to be brought against the Rio executives, they describe the steel and mining businesses - in China as well as other developing countries - as industries in which "side deals" involving key principles like executives and government officials are common. Despite Walsh's assertion that there is "no evidence" against the Rio execs, the widespread assumption among steel-industry insiders with experience operating in China is the opposite - that the government will likely be able to produce evidence that is not, as a source put it, "made up out of whole cloth...
...clothing manufacturer Wearwolf Group announced last week that it had licensed Harvard's recently trademarked phrase "Harvard Yard" for 10 years in a deal made through Collegiate Licensing Company, which represents the University and helped broker the arrangement, according to Collegiate Licensing Senior Vice President of Marketing Kit Walsh. Walsh did not disclose the deal's financial details, though he said that, as with other Harvard licensing agreements, the University will be paid in royalties...
...Though American universities have licensed fashionable clothes abroad, the agreement regarding the expensive clothing line is unusual in the United States, Walsh said. "I don't know offhand of something else in the college market that's been done similarly," he said...
...Walsh, too, downplayed the idea that the clothing line, with its high-end pricing, might seem exclusive. "I would not think that that's something of huge concern," he said. Prep clothing is worn by a wide range of men, he said. "If you look at what people like Kanye West and Russell Simmons and people in the hip-hop community as well as people from other ethnic backgrounds are wearing, at the end just because that look was worn by one particular group of people doesn't have anything to do with the way things are now," he said...