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...streets have legitimate worries about labor standards, environmental protections and non-tariff trade barriers. Unfortunately, because nations are on unequal economic footing, it is relatively more expensive for developing nations to protect workers and the environment than it is for the U.S. When the U.S. has attempted to establish these standards, developing nations have perceived them as merely protectionist tactics...
...Established at the end of last year, the Environmental Economics Program at Harvard University (EEPHU) has been gaining strength as a venue for Harvard students and faculty interested in studying the environment and its relation to economics and public policy. EEPHU Director Robert N. Stavins, Pratt professor of business and government, said he is excited that Harvard is the first university to establish a program in environmental economics. He said the program will bring together leading faculty from various departments in the University, and will serve as a resource for those both inside and outside Harvard...
...medical school plans to use some of the money to establish a new institute to study non-traditional medicine and set up a tenured professorship-the Bernard Osher Chair in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies...
...Milken, who served nearly two years in prison and paid more than $1 billion in connection with his conviction on six counts of securities fraud, was on the list of potential clemency recipients, loud protests from securities regulators and others apparently doomed the effort. White is presumably trying to establish the methodology by which Clinton decided to mete out pardons and commutations, something that could be important in proving a quid pro quo in the Rich case - if there was one. A spokesman for Milken said neither Milken nor his lawyer would comment...
...question of what the student role should be precedes any questions of how the group should be composed. For the past several years, the former Student Advisory Committee spent enormous effort examining how to better integrate students into the decision-making process and pressuring the Institute to establish conclusively the purpose of undergraduate involvement. That question has been left unanswered...