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Several years ago, the Undergraduate Council passed a resolution calling for divestment from the oil companies with operations in Nigeria due to the human rights violations being committed in this country. Renewing the call for divestment from Shell Oil and other oil corporations operating in Nigeria sends the message to these companies to begin involving local citizens in the Niger Delta Region in the decision making processes of oil extraction, and to uphold financial, social, and environmental responsibility to these same communities...
Students interested in obtaining the job schedule and suggestion materials distributed at the conference may call Bryan Richards, Administrator of the Harvard Public Service Network at 496-8622 or email him at bryan_richards@harvard.edu...
...Faculty member in Boylston Hall notified the HUPD that a man claiming to be a UPS driver phoned her and asked her to the building's basement and retrieve a package. The Faculty member did not find anyone when she searched the basement. A colleague reported a similar call from a UPS driver at the same time...
Life seems different when you are looking down the barrel of a gun--more focused, urgent. That is the way Zhu Rongji, China's Premier, likes it. Zhu, 70, is a risk taker, a breed apart in the Chinese leadership. In Beijing they call him Zhu Fengzi, Madman Zhu, as he crashes through the rickety communist superstructure in the name of reform, laying off millions of workers from state-owned enterprises, terrorizing corrupt officials, having smugglers shot. On a good day they call him Zhu Laoban, Zhu the Boss, the only man capable of imposing order on an economy...
Critics charge that unions--in particular the influential Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees--continue to call the shots. "The students are vocal, but it's hard to get a viewpoint from them that does not reflect that of UNITE," says Allan Ryan, a Harvard University lawyer who has negotiated with antisweatshop protesters. Sheldon Steinbach, general counsel for the American Council on Education, asks, "How much of this student interest is really being influenced by unions whose main goal is to try to bring these jobs back to the United States...