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There is no way of avoiding confrontations on ethical issues regarding investments—students have and will continue to force them on the administration as long as the President and Corporation fail to give real power to the ACSR to actively monitor Harvard’s portfolio. Bitter and divisive fights with students and alumni are not worth the cost—last year’s Senior Gift controversy as well as the shantytown protests over apartheid at commencements in the 1980s could have been avoided if a body like the ACSR were continuously screening investments...
...oxide, which relaxes blood vessels and leads to a reduction in blood pressure, according to the study released last month. But Hollenberg said most cocoa products on the market forsake high levels of the healthy antioxidant during processing in order to enhance their sweetness. “Flavonols are bitter,” he said. “Virtually every cocoa tree in the world makes a high-flavonol cocoa, but human beings have intervened to make [cocoa] taste better and they’ve gotten rid of the flavonols.” Confectionery giant Mars, a multinational corporation that...
...Harvard Republican Club issued a joint statement condemning Voith and Gadgil for making contradictory statements to their respective groups about the role of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps on campus. The Crimson originally endorsed Voith and Gadgil but rescinded that endorsement several days later. Despite the bitter election, Voith expressed his confidence in Haddock’s leadership yesterday, though he questioned the direction of the council. “I think that John Haddock is very capable of fulfilling those things that he outlined in his platform,” Voith said. “In terms...
...psychologists are so well published. His most recent book, which he wrote with the help of author Spencer Smith, carries the grating self-help title Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life (New Harbinger Publications; 207 pages). But the book, which has helped thrust Hayes into a bitter debate in psychology, takes two highly unusual turns for a self-help manual: it says at the outset that its advice cannot cure the reader's pain (the first sentence is "People suffer"), and it advises sufferers not to fight negative feelings but to accept them as part of life. Happiness...
...Across the Indian Ocean in Aceh, the disaster persuaded guerrillas and the Indonesian government to declare a truce and work together. Sri Lanka had a similar opportunity. International donors pledged more than $7.5 billion in development and tsunami aid?that's $375 for every person on the island. But bitter squabbles over how to share the cash?last summer, nationalist Sinhalese and Buddhist monks claimed giving aid to the Tigers legitimized terrorism?only aggravated divisions. Hagrup Haukland, Norwegian chief of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, can barely contain his frustration over the recent fighting. "It's madness," he exclaims...