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...financial pressure” on companies that support the Sudanese government can help alter its political stances. While divestment is similar to traditional boycotting of products, classic economic theory predicts that it will have absolutely no effect. Unlike goods and services, whose prices can be affected by changes in demand, the price of a financial asset is determined by its expected returns. If a firm forgoes a profitable investment, then another firm will take advantage of that investment instead. In today’s world of highly mobile global capital, opportunities for profit rarely go unnoticed—someone will...
...problem is that there are simply not enough new buses to meet demand - 8,000 old ones were replaced by around 5,500 of the new ones - which has meant long lines, overcrowding and frayed tempers...
...useless," says Matthew Smith, economics analyst for Jane's, the London-based defense research group. The organization this week estimates Libya's military spending was about $620 million last year - small change for the gargantuan defense industry. And since Libya has few military factories, Gaddafi is also unlikely to demand "offsets" - a common practice in arms deals, where a country agrees to buy expensive military items, in return for doing future maintenance on its own soil...
...letter from 13 members of the Class of 1967 asking University President Drew G. Faust to form a task force to address the “widespread apathy and political indifference of the student body at Harvard College today.” The report, “New Times Demand New Scholarship II: Research Universities and Civic Engagement - Opportunities and Challenges” details areas that are crucial for encouraging civic engagement at research universities. Written and edited by Timothy K. Stanton and published at the University of California, Los Angeles, the report comes out of a partnership between Campus...
...Asian American studies would be far easier. While we support the creation of an Asian American studies track for secondary concentrators in East Asian studies—a move that seems increasingly likely—the creation of such a secondary field would open up the door to demands for similar equally deserving programs for studying other ethnic groups.Instead of such programs existing in isolation, the University should create a broader program for those who wish to pursue secondary concentration in the study of ethnicities in America. Such a program, which could be overseen by the already-existing Committee...