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...concerned about global warming, global AIDS and globalization. We form organizations to “raise awareness,” but too often that’s where things stop. Fortunately, some students aren’t content to just complain. The recent call for seniors to boycott the Senior Gift until Harvard sells its stock in PetroChina is a rare and worthwhile attempt to get Harvard students...
...Harvard should divest seem to think that students shouldn’t do anything about it. The latest manifestation of this predilection for inaction came in response to a call by Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Brandon M. Terry ’05 for seniors to boycott the Senior Gift. I don’t know how many seniors have heeded Mahan and Terry’s call, but I have been shocked by the number of proud progressives who have some gripe with their actions...
...reducing the problem." It has already published a quarter of a million copies of a World Citizens Guide underwritten by Pepsi and UPS for U.S. students overseas. "It's not good news for American businesses that people don't like America," Miller says. While there's no massive boycott, "the question is, what is the time lag between attitudinal shifts and behavior...
...poll shows that credit-card company Visa is barely identified as American. Even among those consumers who said they were inclined to boycott U.S. brands, only a few included Visa on the list. (American Express, by contrast, was strongly identified as being American.) Still, even companies that believe and practice a localized strategy aren't immune to political backlash. McDonald's, for example, adapts its menus to local taste; its restaurants serve Kiwi burgers in New Zealand and wine in France. But that hasn't prevented the fast-food chain from being a favorite target of French protesters. And General...
...government has been acting president Ghazi al-Yawer, whose party won only 6 seats. Shiite leaders have held talks with Yawer's group, but also with representatives of the Association of Muslim Scholars and the Iraqi Islamic Party, Sunni groups that boycotted the election. The combination of the boycott call and intimidation by the insurgents proved remarkably successful in keeping Sunnis away from the polls: In Anbar province, which includes Fallujah and Ramadi, only 2 percent of voters went to the polls, while the turnout in Nineveh, which includes the northern city of Mosul and a significant Kurdish population...