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...wrote that “any policy that encourages the University to engage in boycotts...will have grave disadvantages for the institution.” Yet several events in the past year, including Harvard’s selling its shares of PetroChina, Michigan’s termination of its contract with Coca-Cola, and Stanford’s, Yale’s, and Amherst’s divestment from all companies doing business in Sudan, indicate that this debate is anything but a closed case. And divestment remains in the news—Harvard still holds shares in Sinopec, another...
Only one of three Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) three contracts with the Coca-Cola Company will expire soon enough for Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) to target this semester. Of the three, Harvard’s contract with Coke’s subsidiary juice company Odwalla expires in July 2006, HUDS communications coordinator Jami Snyder told The Crimson yesterday. The other two, for bottled beverages and for dining hall fountain soda, expire respectively in December of 2006 and 2009, Snyder wrote in an e-mail. Coke has been mired in controversy due to allegations...
Users can bet that Summers is going to resign by buying a contract for $7, which was the going price when this article went to press, or that he isn’t going to resign by selling a contract. In a process called “selling short,” one can sell without already owning a contract...
...Shockey even got a contract from the city of Redlands, which is Congressman Lewis' hometown. "The only cities in the country that don't need a lobbyist are the ones represented by a cardinal," Washington parlance for an a Appropriations subcommittee chairman, says Keith Ashdown of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog. Karl Haws, a former Redlands mayor and city councilman who made the formal motion in January 2000 to give Shockey's firm a contract for $30,000, according to council minutes, says it was "helpful to have a knowledgeable person to guide you.... We can't fairly...
...meeting yesterday, the organizers decided that the HUDS contract renegotiation cannot be SLAM’s top priority this semester. Because the negotiations will fall late in the semester, Usmani said, SLAM would have trouble galvanizing the support that would be necessary for a major effort...