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...Alongside sophomore Jeremy Lin, McGeary as well as freshmen Kyle Fitzgerald, T.J. Carey, and Adam Demuyakor all got their first career starts for the Crimson.McGeary, who transferred to Harvard from New Hampshire this year, finished with 11 points against his former squad. Despite six turnovers, McGeary was still an asset against his old teammates, as the hot-shooting guard was 4-for-6 in the game, including shooting 3-for-5 from behind the arc. After four minutes of play, and with the score tied 5-5, Amaker sent in his usual starters, as Housman, Harris, sophomore Pat Magnarelli...
...imperative if the business is to survive. That attitude, coupled with Mauritius' low taxes and ease of doing business, has made the country home to a rocketing finance industry as well. By April 2007, Mauritius was hosting 31,815 foreign companies, including 487 investment funds with a total net asset value of $36.92 billion. Some of that wealth is offshore, but the industry's lawyers, banks and investment houses employ Mauritians and do business with them...
...PetroChina, a Chinese oil company. PetroChina’s parent company, China National Petroleum Corporation, develops projects that generate funds for the government of Sudan, which is accused of genocide in Darfur. While PetroChina and CNPC are technically separate entities, Bakker argues that there is enough evidence of asset flow and overlap in management to suggest that they are not independent. “PetroChina was created to be seen as a safe investment separate from CNPC, when in actuality the two are not completely independent, a fact that Harvard recognized in its divestiture,” Bakker said. Harvard...
...minor.” Epstein would know: he has a long history of acting in Beckett’s plays, starting with the role of Lucky in the first American production of “Waiting for Godot.” Epstein’s experience is an important asset for the production. “He is a living national treasure—this is a real designation in Japan. If we had that here, he’d be that,” Scanlan says. Acting in Beckett’s plays is sometimes likened to torture...
...Some in Washington are looking to the military, and in particular Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani, the deputy chief of the army staff, as a reassuring figure. "On the asset side of the ledger," says one State department official, "We've got a really good relationship with Kiyani. People know him. He has long-term political ambitions and he's patient enough to keep them in the long term...