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...divestment models are not necessarily "terror free" [May 26]. Despite hundreds of foreign companies' doing business with Iran yearly, Iran divestment bills passed by California and Florida targeted fewer than 30 energy firms. Furthermore, loopholes allowed their pension funds to continue holding these companies in other public portfolios. By contrast, terror-free investing is comprehensive and accounts for the financial well-being of pension funds. That is why terror-free models use prescreened investment products excluding all foreign firms doing nonhumanitarian business with Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. This ensures high-yield returns at minimal cost with zero exposure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bridging the Gulf | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...contrast, in many of the neo-Georgian Houses—like Dunster, Leverett, Lowell, and Eliot—residents routinely suffer through painfully small rooms and walk-through suites, primarily because the common rooms built into the original blueprints are now being used as additional bedrooms...

Author: By Abby D. Phillip and Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: College Prepares for $1 Billion Housing Renovation | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...nowhere resurgence—surrendered 15 unanswered points through the fourth and into the extra period. With 2:30 remaining in overtime, the Crimson found itself with a comfortable seven-point cushion—a far cry from its eight-point deficit five minutes earlier. In contrast to Princeton’s withering defense, the Harvard ‘D’ manhandled its way to the most thrilling comeback of the season. Unable to match up with the Crimson’s front court, the Tigers would go without a field goal for the last 4:27 of regulation...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Too Strong for Princeton in Overtime | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...include: Uzbekistan, which regularly makes news for its repressive crackdown on dissidents; Turkmenistan, which is best known for its former dictator's cult of personality so extreme that he renamed the days of the week after the women in his life; and Kyrgystan, which is where, exactly? Kazakhstan, by contrast, has the neighborhood bragging rights attached to being a big name in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cultural Teachings of Ambassador Borat | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...turnout at rallies is any measure, Obama has been outdoing Clinton, often by a margin of three to one. The contrast was evident in early April in Missoula, where 8,500 people cheered an Obama rally at the University of Montana. The next day, Clinton outlined her case to 1,500 people at a fund raiser in an airport hangar. Obama drew 7,000 on May 19 at Montana State University in Bozeman. As in other places, many of his fans are young, noisy and eager to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana: The Democrats' Last Stand | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

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