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Among speakers at the event were Rev. William Mathis, a Harvard Divinity School student and member of the corporate watchdog organization INFACT and Benjamin L. McKean '02, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...
...COMMERCE WATCHDOG Here's further proof that online shopping isn't all it's cracked up to be: of over three dozen newly rated websites listed on Consumer Reports Online at CONSUMERREPORTS.ORG, only Amazon.com wins top honors for "a very satisfying shopping experience." Rated by the five-point system used in the print magazine, the site evaluates e-merchants based on content, usability and policies. Lillian Vernon's catalog site is labeled "inconvenient" and "tedious," while the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut site gets dinged for its "poorly cross-referenced search engine." Just so-so sites include Victoria's Secret, Frederick...
...cuts were spread across the South, especially Kentucky, where earlier in this decade Fruit was one of the largest employers. "They are trying to win in Washington what they've been unable to achieve in the marketplace," says Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a watchdog group. "They're now trying to secure advantages from Congress at a time when they're in dire financial straits...
Oppenheim also fails to note that Emerson has been criticized by The Nation, The New York Times and the well respected media watchdog group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) for his racially biased reporting. FAIR's extensive article on Emerson's reporting history can be read at www.fair.org/extra/9901/emerson.html. Whenever an event that could potentially be construed as a terrorist attack occurs, Emerson is quick to point a finger at the Muslim community without any substantive evidence...
...says Gray. "But in ?The Tin Drum? he sides broadly with humanity against Nazism. It?s one of the great books of the ?50s and ?60s in any language." One group that won?t be impressed by the Nobel Committee?s choice: Oklahomans for Children and Families. The morality watchdog group last year managed to convince Oklahoma City authorities to ban the movie version of "The Tin Drum" ?- winner of the 1979 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film ?- on the basis of its sex scenes...