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...citizen approached a guard at the Harvard Business School (HBS) to report a row of cars with smashed windows. HUPD has noted an upsurge in this type of incident in and around HBS, including stolen and vandalized motor vehicles and stolen license plates. The on-campus incidents have occurred in the Business School parking lot, Newell Boathouse and the parking area of the athletic buildings...
...Pattaya, southeast of Bangkok. "It was a daring move," says Kitti Naktisuwan, an analyst with ABN AMRO Asia Securities. It was also the right move at the right time. Thais flocked to sample such customized wares as tom yum (spicy soup) pizza, and Heinecke, who became a Thai citizen in 1991, now has 116 stores taking about 95% of the country's $50 million-a-year pizza market. But after a 20-year relationship, Heinecke and U.S.-based Tricon Global Restaurants, owner of the Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell franchises, are headed for a divorce...
Over the past 30 years, our nation has substantially cleaned up our air and water--thanks to citizen enforcement lawsuits, tough federal laws that regulate interstate pollution and the ability of Congress and executive agencies to employ modern, innovative solutions to environmental problems as our society grows more complicated. However, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia has been leading an effort on the Supreme Court to revive obscure legal doctrines that restrict the ability of the government and citizens to protect our environment. If the next President appoints more Justices in the mold of Justice Scalia, our environmental standards are at grave...
...only citizen enforcement suits authorized by Congress that draw Justice Scalia's anger. He also opposes efforts to enact uniform national laws to address nationwide problems. Air and water pollution respect no borders. People in downstream states have no ability to protect themselves from upstream pollution without strong federal protective laws. But, for the first time in generations, federal courts and the Supreme Court in particular are on the brink of turning the clock back to a time when the citizenry--including industries--was at the mercy of a crazy quilt of inconsistent and often grossly inadequate state laws...
...pressure on the White House to act. When political winds are swirling, the ability to conduct a thorough investigation is, to be sure, difficult. But to single out just one employee and saddle him with the blame is inexcusable. Even more worrisome is suspicion that Lee, a naturalized American citizen, was targeted because of his Taiwanese ancestry...