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...steps of Memorial Church before joining a citywide rally. The group’s demand: that Harvard adopt a policy of divesting from companies that do business with the Sudanese government.Harvard continues to hold investments in firms accused of financing the ongoing genocide in Darfur. And despite selling its direct stakes in two oil firms with ties to Sudan, the University continues to maintain “indirect” investments in such companies through funds in its portfolio.The University’s holdings in three of those funds declined slightly during the first quarter of 2007, according to filings...
...improve his situation, the American paid a bribe - which embassy officials say is usually around $1,000 - for a spot in a special upstairs area where living conditions are more tolerable. There, inmates can have access, for a price, even to such luxuries as Direct TV or an Xbox. Some install kitchens in their rooms and pay someone to bring food from outside, so as to avoid the sardines and third-grade meat served in the prison. Funds come from prisoners' families and, in some cases, taxpayers' money in their home countries...
...formally involve itself in controversial methods of protest such as hunger striking.While well intentioned, the Stand for Security Act took on a highly charged and inherently political issue on which there is no clear student consensus. The welfare of security guards does impact the greater Harvard community, but its direct impact on undergraduates is negligible. In choosing to involve itself in what amounts to a wage dispute between one of the University’s contractors and their employees, the UC marginalized itself and it opened the door to taking stances on other political issues only tangentially related to Harvard...
...Iraqi government officials believe he is the spiritual head of the insurgency, and accuse his son Muthanna of personally commanding a deadly terror group known as the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution (named after an anti-British uprising led by Harith al-Dari's grandfather). Both al-Daris deny direct connection with the Brigades, but say Sunni insurgent groups are part of a legitimate, nationalist resistance to occupation. He has given religious sanction to some of the insurgency's more controversial tactics, such as kidnapping and killing foreigners, citing precedents from Islamic history...
...plenty to gain from the collapse of the unity government. One of the main reasons for sharing power with Fatah - to circumvent the U.S.-led financial siege of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority - has turned out to be moot. The U.S. and the EU continue to refuse to give direct aid to any Palestinian government with Hamas in it, despite the unity government. A narrower Hamas government would also be in a better position to prevent the already fragile Arab League initiative offering Israel a comprehensive peace agreement in exchange for a returns to 1967 borders...