The ScissorDroids shredded the competition at an international creativity contest Memorial Day weekend. The team of seven Redlands boys beat 67 teams in their division at the Destination ImagiNation global finals May 25 to 28 in Knoxville, Tenn. They performed a skit and used a machine they built to win the elementary level of their category, called "Unidentified Moving Object.
Recently, my twirling team, the West Virginia Mountainettes, competed in our first Twirling Unlimited International Competition in Canton, Ohio. I was amazed by the experience and all the talent I saw. Since twirling isn't very popular in West Virginia, I was shocked to see so many twirlers present. There were more than 200 girls from states including Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and North Carolina. One even came from California!
[...] most of the relevant stakeholders would benefit if competition policy could be harmonized interjurisdictionally.1 Second, and alas, this beneficial harmonization is unlikely to happen on a significant scale in the foreseeable future.2 To many, antitrust harmonization is thus a noble but Utopian aspiration. [...] I discuss the feedback loops that can occur between three different aspects of harmonization - substance, procedure, and institutions - and suggest an incremental path forward.
Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney Promotes Antitrust Collaboration and Convergence at Istanbul Conference WASHINGTON, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, at the ninth annual International Competition Network (ICN) conference in Istanbul, the ICN adopted Recommended Practices for substantive merger analysis, approved a pilot project for a virtual university on competition law and practice, and presented a report on the analysis of refusal to deal and margin squeeze conduct under unilateral conduct laws, the Department of Justice announced.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for two Washington University law students. Andrew Nash and Samir Kaushik, both in their third year of law school, won an international moot court competition this month in India -- the first time an American team was invited to participate. Nash also won individual honors as the second-best oralist in the competition.
Congress recently held hearings to consider ways to modify bank secrecy rules so that taxpayers won't easily avoid paying tax by sheltering overseas income in low-tax countries. However, lawmakers need to be careful not to confuse the act of wrongful tax evasion with the effects of global tax competition. OECD countries such as Ireland, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Switzerland have enjoyed an influx of foreign capital and investment not because they are tax havens but because they have dramatically lower corporate tax rates than the United States, France, Germany, Great Britain and Japan. Until these high-tax countries lower their corporate tax rates, they will continue to lose ground - investment and jobs - to lower tax competitors. An increasing amount of economic evidence suggest...
If you knew you were competing against an 11-time champion in an international competition and you've never competed at such a level before, wouldn't you be at least a little bit nervous? Not the guys of Yarmouth-based Downeasters Barbershop Chorus. "We're pumped!" exclaims 69-year-old Richard Roberge, who sings bass and has been with the chorus for five years.
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