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...force Harvard to divest if certain criteria are met.The latest student and faculty petition drive, led by the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG), calls on Harvard to divest from both direct and indirect investments when “reasonable alternatives exist.” HDAG also wants Harvard to adopt a “targeted divestment model” in which it pledges to divest from companies meeting very specific criteria. Today’s globalized and interconnected world, however, makes indirect investments a thorny issue. Firms invest in other firms, partner with other firms, and hold complex financial instruments...
...America are lucky compared to the people in Africa and Kenya. A project in you know Chicago is a luxury apartment in Kenya. What do you do about it? You send money. You take pictures. You try to create some awareness you know that's about it. Maybe adopt some kids. I don't know...
...pollution comes from local sources. Cleaning up our road transport, shipping and power generation will make an enormous difference. Otherwise, there will be a toll on public health, and taxpayers will end up paying for rising medical costs. The government's first step, long overdue, is to adopt the World Health Organization's global air-quality guidelines and make them the bar for Hong Kong...
...women have achieved a measure of equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...
...snubbing of Latin America than Mexico does. So while Bush rightly considers the free market-minded Calderon his "anti-Chavez" in the region, Calderon knew he could score points with Mexicans who voted against him by publicly chastising Bush this week on matters like Washington's nagging failure to adopt immigration reform...