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...international law, but the death toll has not yet reached Darfur’s horrific heights. Still, Harvard should take little solace in the fact that the Burmese government has killed thousands (as opposed to hundreds of thousands) of its own people. The same “pattern of circumstances?? characterizing the PetroChina-Sudan relationship is also present in the Chevron-Burma tie. Just as PetroChina’s parent company was a major player in the Sudanese oil industry, so too is Chevron a leader in the Burmese natural gas sector. Just as oil revenue props...
...inherited his wealth and the best plot of land as the older brother. Don Amadeus had to eke out his living as a carpenter, but even his pressed shirt, pants, and formal shoes couldn’t hide his relative poverty. Each remains inadequate and defined by mostly hurtful circumstances??Don Amadeus by race, Don Ruben by inheritance, and Carlos by sinful economic demand in a country other than his own.Though each of these men has the power to define himself personally, he does not possess the tools to define himself professionally. It was this realization that...
Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby released a brief letter to professors yesterday in which he spoke of the “difficult circumstances?? over the past five weeks that have seen both his and University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignations, while praising the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for having “continued its work with unflagging energy and goodwill.” The message, which is less than 400 words in total, comes as the Faculty awaits Kirby’s annual Letter to the Faculty. In past years, Kirby?...
...including its decisions to divest from Angola’s oil industry, apartheid South Africa, and tobacco stock—all these decisions were made on an ad hoc basis. This “Bok system” has several problems. First, the “exceptional circumstances?? criteria for divestment forces the ethical responsibility debate to be rehashed from scratch each time a questionable investment is discovered in Harvard’s portfolio. Second, the current system means that reviews often do not occur because they are reactionary. This means the overall process is slow and arduous...
According to the e-mail, “employers, professors, graduate school admissions committees, or even the media in certain circumstances?? may be viewing facebook profiles in the near future...