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...Group A stage. “We are thrilled for Andre and the success that he has earned,” said Harvard coach John Kerr in a press release. “First and foremost, I think Andre impressed the National Team coaches with his attitude and approach to the game.” Joining Akpan on the roster are six Major League Soccer professionals, including Real Salt Lake phenom Freddie Adu. The others are Nathan Sturgis, Tim Ward, Danny Szetela, Josmer Altidore, and Quavas Kirk. UCLA midfielder Tony Beltran and Wake Forest defender Julian Valentin, also named, joined...
...adopting this approach, Harvard can ensure it minimizes any potential harm to both Sudanese civilians and to Harvard’s endowment. In addition, it would mean that Harvard would protect itself from ending up in the position it is in today—of finding its money invested in companies with which it has already made a policy decision not to be associated...
...respectively. Both those decisions were made on the grounds that Harvard should not be supporting companies with proven complicity in a situation that the U.S. government has determined to be genocide—in other words, companies that meet the "worst offending" criteria. Furthermore, there is precedent for this approach. During the mid-1980s, Harvard started screening the "worst-offending" companies operating in South Africa under apartheid...
...Monday’s Crimson, Interim University President Bok said he did not know about the University’s indirect holdings in PetroChina and Sinopec, and that the investments must relate to something that happened prior to his interim presidency. As long as the current ad hoc approach to Darfur-related divestment remains in place, we can expect to see the incoming Harvard president make similarly blinkered statements, which will ultimately undermine Harvard’s good standing on this issue. By contrast, the implementation of a targeted divestment model as a matter of policy provides...
...edges). One of the first things he did upon assuming command of the Pacific theater was order his staff to haul out the war plans for North Korea and other potential flashpoints in the region to probe whether they were credible. Aides say he'll take the same critical approach to war strategies for Iraq and Afghanistan...