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...tells you that the average diner eats about 50 bites and spends about $50 in this restaurant, making it a dollar per bite. He further informs you that today they have special deal of $0.5 per bite, and that a waiter stands a few feet from your table will watch you and mark every bite you take so that the end of the meal they will only charge you for the number of bites you took. Sounds like a great deal...
...weeks before this Halloween, parents groups mobilized either to ban the holiday altogether or to arrange substitute activities for disappointed lots. Aldermen and city councils all over the country debated their right to call a halt to trick-or-treating. P. T. A. task forces patrolled neighborhood stores to watch for product contaminations. Local hospitals offered to X-ray the loot. In the end, there were widely reported incidents of pin-laden chocolate and strange tasting fruit. A packet of hypodermics was found in a box of cereal in Danbury, Conn., and a Long Island man was injured when...
...fasters not only reinforce the pressure for divestment on the Corporation but emphasize the seriousness of their moral commitment and invite the Corporation (and the rest of us) to do the same. Hopefully, President Bok and the Fellows of the University will not sit in stubborn silence and watch the opportunity pass by. To quote one group of tenured professors who have thrown their support behind the fasters. “We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callously that it is incapable of matching the moral thrust of divestiture fasters...
...With that, Bogert decided the time had come to “get out of the stands and join a team”—Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based organization that researches and reports on human rights abuses. Today, she serves as HRW’s associate director, using her media experience to help the organization publicize reports on human rights violations...
...reality, though, is that the parents of Dujiangyan are unlikely to prevail. Sophie Richardson, a Human Rights Watch lawyer specializing in legal reform in China, says that the government has refused to renew the licenses of two prominent civil rights lawyers who offered to represent Tibetans in the wake of the violence in the Tibet Autonomous Region in March. "They don't allow politically sensitive cases to get anywhere," Richardson says. "I'd be very surprised if this turns out to be different." Liu Li says she just wants to know why her daughter's school turned into a death...