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...Professor Ulrich’s apologetics, such is not the way of the Harvard history department: “The Harvard history department doesn’t teach courses like that. We think our students deserve better.” One can only surmise that Ulrich’s criteria for “better” and “worse” took shape in the stew of postmodern clichés, identity politics, and disdain for the idea of history in the large that has inundated contemporary academic culture and to which Harvard has been as susceptible...
...treaty, the U.S. single-handedly elevates India to the status of a legitimate nuclear power, thus showing no respect for cornerstone non-proliferation treaties such as the 1968 NPT. Importantly, the Bush administration failed to establish or describe any objective criteria by which other countries can aspire to achieve this type of legitimacy. Bush’s decision, instead, sends an ambiguous message to the international community. The U.S., it seems, is prepared to grant nuclear legitimacy to those it likes and condemn those it does not, and that will determine the legitimacy of a nuclear power. This type...
...submit a "business plan" to the health ministry, says Alberta Health and Wellness spokesman Howard May. "Then we appraise [each request] based on a number of things, the most fundamental of which is the fact that the public system will be protected." The ministry is currently ironing out criteria that would allow doctors to work in both systems. "But it will be done on a case-by-case basis," May says. One main criterion is that a doctor who wants to work in a private clinic would have to provide assurances that his private work there would not compromise...
...same with us.”One of the founders of the divestment wing of the Darfur Action Group, Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, wrote in an e-mail last night that because the PetroChina divestment last year “established a precedent and set criteria for divestment” that he thinks Sinopec meets, Bok’s views are irrelevant.“Bok’s objection to divestment was that a University’s money shouldn’t be used to create political change,” Bhatnagar wrote...
What might such guidelines look like? The Corporation should look to both the standards set by its peer institutions and the criteria set forth by the Harvard Corporation in the PetroChina decision. A prudent place to start would be an unequivocal ban on investments that facilitate governments responsible for committing or supporting Congress-declared genocides There is no excuse for Sinopec, which is involved in Sudan in the same way as PetroChina, to remain in Harvard’s portfolio—since the University has taken a moral stance against genocide in Sudan, it behooves them to be consistent...