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Even in so grave a situation as the genocide in Darfur, the Harvard Corporation is front and center as the target of activism. Divestment of its holdings from two Chinese oil companies was accomplished last year—but it brought no financial loss to the real offenders. (Speculators jubilantly bought up what Harvard sold, and they and Chinese oil alike won on the deal). Some reply this activism was better than nothing; in fact, it was equal to nothing. It even failed to deliver the promised, lasting “awareness” of the genocide, which has once...
...emphases would be particularly relevant to an audience of graduating KSG student. “I think he really gets...what is important to young people,” she said. “And in terms of what is important to people who are graduating—Darfur is important, climate change is important...Iraq is important, and he gets that.” The son of two college professors, Kristof came to Harvard from rural Yamhill, Oregon. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1981, he attended Oxford to study law on a Rhodes scholarship. His first Pulitzer, which...
...Corporation members have changed since the Class of 1982 first arrived at Harvard; the advisory group is no longer the Advisory Committee for Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), but the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility; and apartheid-era South Africa is gone, bringing attention instead to the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...Under Bush 2, he served first as U.S. Trade Representative and then Deputy Secretary of State, working on international trade negotiations for months on end and later on the crisis in Darfur. It was an open secret that Zoellick always wanted to be Treasury Secretary, and when it became clear that he was unlikely to get the position, he left government last year and went to work for Goldman Sachs in New York. During his year at Goldman Sachs, Zoellick kept a real-time watch on a wide variety of events in Washington and served as a foreign policy adviser...
...action that might change minds in Khartoum would be the threat of direct military intervention, but in light of the Iraq debacle, that option is simply not on the table. Despite the sanctions announced Tuesday by President Bush, the coming months will see more horrifying news of massacres from Darfur, more wrenching refugee tales, more urgent calls for action. And the reason the Darfur crisis will continue to tear at the world's conscience isn't simply because of the scale and cruelty of the atrocities there, but also because the global community either...