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...gotten rid of four years ago—when it sold the shares to Charlesbank Equity Fund. Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake defended the University’s conduct in the matter. “This case in part involves the interpretation of a technical term in a contract,” Longbrake wrote in an e-mail. The technicality centered on whether Charlesbank, which has financial ties to Harvard, is by definition a Harvard affiliate. In 1995, Harvard Private Capital Holdings, a nonprofit corporation controlled by the University, acquired shares worth $15 million in Blinds to Go, which operates...
Wielding signs supporting Harvard workers, shaking Pepsi and Dr. Pepper can noisemakers, and pounding makeshift drums, nearly 40 demonstrators marched in a circle outside the Holyoke Center yesterday, demanding that Harvard discontinue its Coca-Cola contract and provide better working conditions for Harvard’s employees. Chanting slogans like “What’s disgusting? Union busting! What’s outrageous? Harvard’s wages!,” protestors moved from the Holyoke Center to the Harvard University Dining Services headquarters to University Hall, where the administration was filtering in to a 4 p.m. Faculty...
...more important question might be: do policy plans and unity matter? Republicans have long argued their "Contract with America" - a 10-point plan signed by more than 300 GOP candidates - helped push them toward victory in November 1994. But according to polls at the time, most voters had not ever heard of the contract by Election Day. And many Democrats question the need for any kind of grand plan, particularly with President Bush's poll numbers below 40%; the party could urge voters to choose Democrats in Congress just to offer a balance to Bush. The key question, some Dems...
...strategies shaping up for the two parties? Do the Democrats need an agenda of their own, similar to the Contract with America that...
...background, in classified intelligence and diplomatic cables, a picture was emerging of fees and commissions paid to intermediaries - and then on to Baghdad's monster. When the dust began to settle after the invasion, a June 2003 memo from U.S. military Capt. Blake Puckett reported that every contract in the Oil-for-Food scheme contained a kickback to the regime of between 10-19%. As the Cole Inquiry is now hearing with disquieting regularity, key officials have very short memories; dfat's filing system is wretched; and, after writing to officials in March 2004 that he was worried, the Minister...