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...February that the policy “does not extend to investment vehicles over which the University does not exercise direct control over composition and investment decisions.”Divesting from these indirect holdings would not be as simple for Harvard as relinquishing its direct holdings. These funds contain a number of companies, allowing Harvard to invest in a specific industry or region without taking on all the risk of investing in an individual firm.But foreign-owned companies included in such funds might not otherwise be listed on American exchanges or included in many other funds.As a result, says...
...navigating the Web, information fatigue is as common as sunburns in July. There is no comprehensive "card catalogue" system to organize the gargantuan library, nor is there a guarantee that the information is accurate. Typically, search results also include sponsored links, which may not contain the most objective information. Kids (and often adults when the advertising is more subtle or indirect) can't tell the difference between regular content and content that has been paid...
...federal funding. New Jersey approved $270 million, and California devoted $3 billion to research.New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has proposed spending $1 billion in public money for stem cell research. In addition to the centers at the University of Massachusetts and funding for embryonic stem cell research, the plans contain funds to make up the difference in the declining value of federal research grants. Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
...paper, has been downgraded to a perpetual [enter anti-queer here] page where intelligence and logic fall victim to an endless desire to prove that somehow, people of different sexualities simply deserve ridicule. Of the seven issues from this past year, six of the Salient back pages contain some sort of anti-queer joke unbefitting of political discourse. If Republicans learned anything this past month, it was that anti-gay demagoguery similar to that expounded by The Salient and political talking heads like Ann Coulter is not only despicable, but blatantly abuses all standards of decency. Such ignorance is responsible...
...generals. In response, according to eyewitnesses and privately-owned TV channels, the government jammed the transmission of private TV channels covering the event, cut off power supply to whole neighborhoods, shut down small hotels and restaurants along the route to dissuade protesters from sticking around, and dragged empty shipping containers into the road to block Chaudhry's way. In Islamabad, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz reminded one reporter that the government had the constitutional right to declare a state of emergency in such situations, prompting an editorial in the respected English-language daily Dawn to scold that the government "would...