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...where moral concerns clearly override the University’s legitimate desire to avoid having its investment decisions held hostage to a potential slew of causes. PetroChina’s parent company, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), is a leading partner with the Sudanese government in the country??s production of oil, a major funding source for the government’s sanctioned genocide of the people of Darfur. A 40 percent stakeholder in a major Southern Sudanese oil concession, PetroChina’s parent company is also increasingly difficult to distinguish from PetroChina itself, leaving Petrochina culpable...
PetroChina is a spin-off of the China National Petroleum Company, which has invested over $1 billion in a joint venture with Sudan to increase that country??s oil exports. Harvard’s decision makes the University the first institutional investor to cut ties with PetroChina in response to the Darfur crisis, activists said...
According to the foundation, the first cut of finalists is determined by a vote of the country??s 58 Division I coaches and a fan ballot, while the “Hat Trick Finalists” are selected by a 25-member committee and a second fan poll...
...body—decided to sell shares of PetroChina because the company is too closely tied to the genocide, they said. PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil company, is owned by China National Petroleum Company, which has invested over $1 billion in a joint venture with Sudan to increase that country??s oil revenues, which are helping fund the genocide...
...American public, to one degree or another, holds that disabled people are better off dead. To put it in a simpler way, many Americans are bigots. A close examination of the facts of the Schiavo case reveals not a case of difficult decisions but a basic test of this country??s decency...