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...August 2002 gave the thumbs-up to the degradation of hundreds—if not thousands—of human beings, to give a speech on constitutional law.By not only hosting Bybee but guaranteeing him a forum free of dissent, the Federalist Society has made Harvard complicit in an ongoing whitewash. To understand how Bybee’s reputation has been laundered, we need to look briefly at the history of the torture memo he authored.Written when its author was Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, the Bybee memo guided Bush Administration policy towards detainees for almost...
...that Sinopec is constructing a pipeline in Sudan that could substantially boost the country’s oil output.Hazlett added that the campaign would not stop at one company.“What we really want is a solid divestment principle with governments that have been declared to be complicit in genocide,” he said.The recent push for divestment comes after announcements made last month that Yale, Brown and Amherst will divest from Sudan.“The Yale divestment was a very encouraging sign that divestment has gone mainstream,” said Benjamin B. Collins...
...characters and with the audience's sympathy. It stretches coincidence and credulity, but it is less a realistic picture than an updated morality play. The people in it are archetypes if you like the movie, stereotypes if you don't, but creatures seen from above by a compassionate, partially complicit outsider...
Levy believes that though it may be fun to be treated as one of the guys, FCPs become inherently complicit in the devaluation of women, because they so easily dismiss other women...
Last year’s PetroChina divestment campaign sparked a campus debate on how politicized, if at all, the Harvard endowment should be. The problem with seeking maximum returns in investments is that companies like PetroChina, Sinopec, Unocal that either indirectly facilitate or are directly complicit in grave human rights abuses remain in Harvard’s portfolio. Fortunately, last year the University agreed that Harvard must ensure that its money is not used to facilitate morally bankrupt activity. Citing President Derek C. Bok’s precedent that divestment is reasonable in “exceptional circumstances...