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...TIME: You sound like a natural politician. Wouldn't you welcome full democracy and direct election for Chief Executive? TSANG: Certainly I would welcome that, and our constitution allows it ... In 2005 I tried to [implement] constitutional reform. I did not succeed, not because people didn't want it. People wanted it; there was majority support for it. But there were some bloody-minded politicians who wouldn't allow it through in the Legislative Council-against the people's wishes. But I'm not giving up ... This summer, based on [all] the various proposals I have received, I'm going...
...negative number of shares in these companies. The Crimson also only reported indirect holdings through Exhange Treaded Funds (ETFs), such as the FXI index. However, the HMC also owns (and sells short) securities such as bonds, credit default swaps, and other derivative instruments, the trading of which directly impacts (for better or worse) the welfare of the companies in question. Second, these shares held by the Harvard Management Company are held only through Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and other broad market indices. Almost any ETF has a component stock that, when traded, has a direct impact on PetroChina?...
...aims and momentum. We want to clarify how our position would affect Harvard’s various investments, however, which was not stated in the article. Our targeted divestment plan asks Harvard to divest only where reasonable alternatives with similar risk and returns currently exist. This includes: direct securities holdings (there are other Chinese and Malaysian oil companies who do not do business with the Sudanese government), exchange-traded fund holdings (these are index funds bought together to look like stocks, and there are many different exchange-traded funds which do not include the offending companies), and index fund holdings...
...really great organization, something totally different from any student organization here, we want to bring in professionals to work with the undergraduate actors, to speak to and mentor,” says Fredricks. As a start, Benjamin Evett, Artistic Director of the Actor’s Shakespeare Project, will direct “Romeo and Juliet,” which opens at the end of April in the outdoor Kirkland and Adams House courtyards, a setting that harkens back to the outdoor roots of the company. The production of “Much Ado About Nothing” that Lithgow...
...such, although it is their duty to do everything in their power to ensure that events similar to those of World War II are never held as a model of acceptable behavior for Japan or any other society, it is simply not appropriate for them to take direct action regarding apology for those events. Such apologies as remain to be given must be given by surviving perpetrators of the WWII tragedies directly to the surviving victims. While it is the duty of contemporary people to confront the reality of WWII in order to build a better world for present...