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...physical and mental well-being of the players are important, and the league should strive within reason to make its product safer. But in the end, the gridiron can never be kind to the body. Professional sports are crucially different from construction or deap-sea fishing, both of which deal with worksite injuries as a necessary evil. The goal and practice of these latter jobs is not to be harmed, whereas serious contact is a part of football’s standard operating procedure...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Pigskins on the Brain | 4/21/2010 | See Source »

...repeated things until they became meaningless,” but through a careful marketing strategy he was able to package the street-art aesthetic, and to sell it. Essentially, Guetta cheated street art; he seized the art form, in the midst of its popularity, and turned it into a product of mass consumption...

Author: By Sarah L. Hopkinson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Exit Through The Gift Shop | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

Current policies include the requirement that public spending not exceed 30 percent of gross domestic product and that new taxes be approved by a referendum. Saakashvili also noted that Georgia is ranked 11th in the world by the World Bank for ease of doing business...

Author: By Paula I. Ibieta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Georgian President Touts His Country's Business | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...zero-rupee note program works because corruption is often a product of social norms. As development efforts go forward, such efforts to change social norms should be emphasized above ineffective structural reforms that paper over persisting problems. India has had legal structures meant to fight corruption since the country’s inception, but in the words of Kennedy School professor Lant Pritchett, “the de jure process no longer has any real claim on the behavior of the agents of the state, who are following a different de facto set of procedures” that have basically...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: ‘I Will Give You Nothing for That’ | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...couture, but they also redefine the relationship between fashion and the minority community. The particular aesthetic goals of these shows vary based on the nature of their individual relationships with ethnic communities on campus—yet all three remain committed to pursuing charitable ends despite funding complications. The product is a wholly new breed of fashion show...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cultural Couture | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

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