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...government in the country’s production of oil, a major funding source for the government’s sanctioned genocide of the people of Darfur. A 40 percent stakeholder in a major Southern Sudanese oil concession, PetroChina’s parent company is also increasingly difficult to distinguish from PetroChina itself, leaving Petrochina culpable for CNPC’s indirect funding of the Sudanese genocide...
Yesterday’s CCSR statement did not distinguish between the New York and Hong Kong holdings. But a spokeswoman for Summers said last month that any decision on divestment would affect all PetroChina shares “regardless of the exchange on which they trade...
...country has learned that we cannot judge people on the basis of minority status, but for some reason we have not erased our prejudice against disability. One insidious form of this bias is to distinguish cognitively disabled persons from persons whose disabilities are “just” physical. Cognitively disabled people are shown a manifest lack of respect in daily life, as well. This has gotten so perturbing to me that when I fly, I try to wear my Harvard t-shirt so I can “pass” as a person without cognitive disability...
Harris said he recognizes that the nation’s education schools have room for improvement, but he added, “That doesn’t distinguish them from all the other professional schools and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Furthermore, prestige-hungry schools like Harvard relentlessly seek to distinguish their faculty and students in significant part by professionalizing knowledge, strengthening alumni connections, and plucking the most promising youth from across the world, including its most troubled communities. Professionalizing knowledge concentrates the production and consumption of legitimate knowledge in the hands of fewer people. Strengthening alumni connections turns putatively meritorious students into social climbing graduates who climb as much, if not more, because of their connections as their merit. Plucking promising youth from troubled towns may advance a school’s prestige, but this individualistic approach does little...