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...history that UBS has turned a blind eye to mass murder. While thousands of European Jews had deposited their savings at the bank in the 1930s, UBS refused to return those assets to victims’ families after World War II. It wasn’t until August 1998 that UBS finally agreed to compensate victims’ families. And even as the bank was negotiating the settlement with Jewish groups, UBS began to shred the World War II-era archives of a subsidiary that had maintained close ties to the Nazi regime. (UBS said that the shredding...
...Carolyn E. Wood, an assistant academic dean at the Kennedy School who works on the Broadmoor Project, many New Orleans neighborhoods become eligible for certain types of funding only when they can prove that more than 50 percent of their residents have returned since Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005. “Most neighborhoods were not able to conduct these surveys and prove empirically that their residents were coming back,” Wood said. Henry Lee, who directs the Kennedy School’s Environmental and Natural Resource Program, said Shell had already given...
...first-served basis. Bluzenstein also said his company’s drivers were particularly reliable. “We are very demanding of our drivers in the quality of service provided,” she said. “Customer service is our top priority.” In August 2005, a Fung Wah bus burst into flames in Connecticut. In September 2006, another rolled over in Auburn, Mass., injuring more than 30 passengers. Iain W. R. Kaplan ’08, who lives in the New York area, said he is inclined to take Vamoose over a bus line...
...million today. Maug said she thought that the military government would respond to commercial pressures. “Under the junta, industry is stagnating, so corporations have the influence. They can say, ‘We want genuine dialogue,’” Maug said. Since August, monks in Myanmar have been protesting increased oil and gas prices imposed by the military junta. Last month, government soldiers tear-gassed crowds, arrested monks, and killed several protesters. The government, which came to power after a coup in 1988, is accused of human rights violations and of limiting freedom...
...Gibbs' and Duffy's book, The Preacher and the Presidents, was excerpted in TIME in August...