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...storage "batteries" of molten salt, which would power turbine generators. Cost of building a 3,000-kw. demonstration plant: $10 million. Despite the amount of land that such projects would take, most scientists agree that, given research funds, solar power will be economical and efficient in the not-too-distant future...
Marriage Revealed. John Spencer-Churchill, 46, distant cousin of the late Sir Winston and the eleventh Duke of Marlborough; and Countess Rosita Douglas, 26, a Swedish fashion designer; he for the third time, she for the first; in London...
...sign up?" This is somewhat irrelevant, as is black Professor Martin Kilson's insistence that black students should give up their scholarships before demanding action from Harvard which might threaten its investment return. Nevertheless, the connection between such protests and relief from oppression for Angolese people is about as distant as it can be. One wonders if the president of Gulf was even vaguely aware of the crisis to which the president of Harvard had to devote full-time for nearly a month for even if Harvard were forced to divest it would hurt neither the company nor the price...
...university." On the other hand, in order not to challenge "the prevailing understandings about the nature of the universities," the guidelines are structured to protect what the authors call "the Academic Context" both from financial crippling and from politicization, the latter by keeping investment decisions as distant as possible from the day-to-day life of the university. The authors carefully dispatch both the theory that stockholders can't or shouldn't influence the companies they own, and all arguments in favor of divestiture except in very specific circumstances. They conclude that investments should almost always be made for maximum...
...supposed to thrive in the "academic context" should force the University into a greater role, not a lesser one, for these assumptions can't long exist with the widespread knowledge that they are financed by contradictory ones. The authors conclusion, therefore, that ethical investment decisions should be made as distant as possible from the day-to-day life of the university is exactly wrong (and is confounded by the very existence of their book, which emerged from a Yale seminar). The humanitarian impulse of the university is precisely what should drive it toward stockholder activism, while such activism...