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...having Bell's palsy affect who you are today? -Spencer Navejar, Provo, UtahFreshman year in high school is a bad time to have half your face paralyzed, but it helped me develop more of a personality. You have to make fun of yourself, or else you're going to have a really rough life...
Historically, Harvard has been reluctant to let human rights considerations affect its investment decisions. But on rare occasions, the University has dropped its holdings in firms that have close ties to particularly reprehensible regimes. In response to the Darfur genocide, Harvard sold its stake in the oil company PetroChina in 2005. The Harvard Corporation, the school’s seven-member senior governing body, cited a “unique pattern of circumstances relating PetroChina to the crisis in Sudan”: oil revenues from a PetroChina-backed project have funded Sudanese weapons purchases, enabling the regime to slaughter innocent...
...think of what we can do.” Last week, University President Drew G. Faust announced her intention to expand financial aid offerings to students at several of the graduate schools at Harvard. Without offering specifics, Fitzsimmons said he expected this University-wide push to affect the College’s aid programs. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...just gives them more information so they can make better decisions on the part of their students,” she added. Administrators of the Harvard Coop, including President Jeremiah P. Murphy ’73, could not be reached for comment yesterday on how the bill would affect the store’s book prices. Beasley and Amadi P. Anene ’08—co-founders of the Course-Cost Assistance Program, which provides textbook stipends to low-income Harvard students—encouraged their fellow undergraduates to attend tomorrow’s hearing...
Argentina has accused Iran of complicity in the deadly 1990s bombings of the Israeli embassy and a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Do Chavez's close ties to Iran affect Argentine relations with Venezuela in that regard? I can't select another head of state's friends any more than I can select another head of state. We have good relations with Israel, which has close ties to England; but should I let Argentina's differences with England over the Malvinas [The Falkland Islands] affect our relations with Israel? You have to respect certain aspects of another nation...