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...Poon affiliates masqueraded as security guards while a decoy in a penguin costume made a grand entrance into a Science Center hall where actor Burt Ward was displaying his Batman costume. According to Widmer’s version of the tale, the penguin unleashed the code words...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Conan We Knew | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...firm who see dishonorable behavior known to be illegal or not in the best interest of the firm are encouraged, if not rewarded, to bring their concerns to the compliance department or the company’s office of legal council. This is critically important to restore a code of honor and ethical behavior in these companies where the temptation to succumb to greed is all too great...

Author: By Walter B. Schubert | Title: Reforming the SEC | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

October brought the first meeting of a new student group called Tocsin—a word meaning “alarm bell” that has also been a code name in several military nuclear strike events—whose primary activities involved spreading awareness and promoting the fight against nuclear arms and testing...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students and Faculty Fight Nuclear Tests | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...word” that got him into so much trouble in the past: empathy. As a candidate, and then again when he nominated Sonia M. Sotomayor, Obama listed empathy among the most important virtues a justice could possess. His opponents insisted that the term could only be code for an “activist” judge, which in turn is code for a left-wing judge. But to understand Obama’s insistence on empathy, we need to consider the classic statement on the subject by an 18th-century author who is usually understood to stand...

Author: By Michael L. Frazer | Title: Empathy, Obama, and Adam Smith | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...commencement ceremonies for universities in the United States is really old school—that is, it originated from the medieval dress of scholars at universities such as Oxford and Cambridge. Academic regalia at Harvard have followed a long history and now largely conform to the Academic Costume Code. But Harvard has its own history on academic dress and continues to retain key elements that differentiate it from the widely-accepted code...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graduation Robes, Explained | 5/25/2010 | See Source »

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