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...private equity company that buys and sells hotels. The company—which faces ongoing labor disputes for mistreatment of its workers—draws 80 percent of its funding from endowments, including those of Harvard and Yale. “HEI is a piece of evidence, but the broader picture is responsibility for the whole endowment. [Bowman] put together this conference with some help from us basically to just train students in research methods,” said REP co-founder Hans J. Schoenburg. “We focused on transparency, or the lack thereof, around university endowments...
...Malcorra said she was pleased with the success of the event. “At the end of the day, we are an organization that is alive and is rethinking itself in a constant manner,” she said. “Engaging in a dialogue with the broader society is critical.” —Staff writer Evan T. R. Rosenman can be reached at erosenm@fas.harvard.edu...
...became his campaign's hallmark - would tap a relative neophyte to lead the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Joshua DuBois, the 26-year-old Pentecostal pastor who served as director of religious affairs for Obama's Presidential campaign, will oversee an office with a broader mission than it held under George W. Bush. Obama has charged DuBois - who will lead a council of 25 influential religious and nonprofit leaders - with helping both faith-based and secular groups galvanize their communities by providing everything from social services to job training. His appointment is a gamble...
...times to the embarrassment of Democrats. Obama and Pelosi each, of course, have distinct motives, and personalities: Pelosi is a partisan warrior who must tend to her caucus, while Obama got elected as a postpartisan healer, implicitly attacking the old ways of Washington and striving to appeal to a broader national base. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...marriage from 15 to 18. Two other girls in Sanaa - one age 9, the other 12 - have since sued for divorce, while an 8-year-old in Saudi Arabia has won a divorce suit, apparently inspired by Nujood's tale. Nujood says she hopes to ignite a far broader movement of girls to quit their child marriages, adding, "They should not be scared of their fathers or their husbands...