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...Harvard to an effort at socially responsible investing. Despite its financial strength, Harvard is foremost committed to its ideals and principles as an educational institution, and should not be financially supporting companies known for labor, human rights, environmental or other abuses; whenever possible, Harvard should use its stock-holding clout to compel such corporations to change their policies...
...other student representatives say undergraduates can sometimes affect the process--though most of them don't know how to make their voices heard, and the amount of clout they really have is debatable...
...nimble figure in particular--Boris Berezovsky, financial baron turned political wheeler-dealer, the most ruthless of the so-called New Russians in the art of turning money into power. Unlike the men officially running the government, he always knows what he wants and has the brashness, tenacity and clout to get it. For him. Yeltsin's weakness offered a chance to strengthen the puppet strings...
...decade. "Psycho is like an existential play," he says. "It's very simple, done on a very simple budget, and that was part of it--to make a simple film." But Universal Pictures, which held the rights, always laughed him off. Good Will Hunting's grosses and the clout of producer Brian Grazer (Liar Liar and Apollo 13) helped bring the studio around...
Bold graphic but lacked clout in getting exclusive post-address guests, who popped up everywhere else; in fact, Orrin Hatch showed up dead last, after sharing his views on other networks--even Fox News...