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When the President's office announces the names of seven new members of the Advisory Committee for Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) either today or on Monday, the list will include two new alumni members--a Newton business executive and the president of a Cambridge energy equipment firm...
...addition to its obligation to investigate any of the 50 companies in which Harvard invests at the request of an outside shareholder, the proposal would place an eight-company-per-year review on the ACSR's agenda...
Richard Vallely, the ACSR's representative from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said Wednesday he will oppose the measure because it will "push divestiture off the agenda" and allow the ACSR to avoid fundamental issues of shareholder responsibility...
Kenneth Propp, the Law School representative to the ACSR, also criticized the plan, saying he believes the Corporation is proposing it because "they are reluctant to deal with the larger issue of American corporate involvement in South Africa...
...ACSR would make a serious mistake in not addressing University policy in general and instead examining "overly specific, almost trivial information about eight companies," Michael L. 9be the equivalent of a $14 million program in this country. The Canadian program gives direct subsidies to thousands of low and middle income homeowners to help them slash their fuel bills. The American program of tax incentives benefits only the rich. To take a tax credit, you have to spend money first. Of the less then 10 per cent of Americans who claimed tax credits for conservations purposes, more than 75 per cent...