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...licensing agreement with Russell Athletics last December, as the company faced allegations that it shut down a Honduran factory because of workers’ attempts to unionize. Yet Rick Calixto, director of the Harvard University Trademark Program, wrote in an e-mail in February that Harvard would consider renewing its contract with Russell if the company followed recommendations of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a global workers’ rights group of which Harvard is a member. Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, a SLAM member, said that SLAM is concerned that the investigation leading...
...VEBA - so its chips should be marked down as well. (In fact, by law the VEBA's IOU is junior to the bondholders' IOU.) Thus, the VEBA's IOU should not translate into a 39% equity stake but a small sliver of that. (Read about Detroit's attempts to renew itself...
...With a series of bombing attacks against Shi'ites leaving at least 150 people dead in recent days, many Iraqis have wondered whether the Mahdi Army will continue to stand down or renew death squad killings as they did when sectarian violence raged out of control for more than a year beginning in 2006. Zaid and others associated with Sadr say that for now the militia is effectively dormant. "The Mahdi Army is off the streets by order of the Sadr himself," says Zaid, who spoke to TIME in Najaf and pointed to a standing unilateral cease-fire declared...
Jurez civic leaders like Vargas have long called for the kind of Mexican police and judicial reform that both countries are only now starting to make a priority. Meanwhile, Americans like El Paso County sheriff Richard Wiles want the U.S. to renew the assault-weapons ban that George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress allowed to expire in 2004. If it doesn't, they fear, the few Black Hawk helicopters that Washington ships to Mexico's antidrug warriors won't make up for the thousands of AK-47 rifles and even rocket-propelled grenades pouring into the hands...
...violence and drug wars ravaging Mexico. “How you punish and avoid corruption is the real question. Can democracy limit corruption?” Fuentes asked. As he called for a “new deal for Mexico” and a social contract that would renew the nation and clear up corruption. Fuentes emphasized that literature and education were essential in this push for progress. Students who attended the discussion agreed with Fuentes’ statement on the role of art in politics. “I’m an artist myself, concerned with the politics...