Word: divesting
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Harvard decided to lessen its presence in the neighborhoods and divest itself of some of its smaller holdings, a move which has been encouraged buy those concerned about University expansion. Since Harvard retains no future rights in these properties, no mortgages, no encumbrances, these properties are owned free and clear by the buyers...
...fact, two freshmen, Glen McDonald and Henry Riggs, were so upset that they went to the top. No, they didn't ask evolution mogul Steven Jay Gould to resurrect the great beast. They asked President Derek C. Bok to divest of Harvard's stock in companies that contributed to the decline and fall of the prehistoric animal...
...holds nothing against the wooly mammoth or its new-found buddies, McDonald, Riggs and Bok. Indeed, he remains indefatigably cheerful, pleasant and hopeful for a response soon. He has no illusions that the letter sent by his Boston-based group, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni for Divestiture, will prompt Bok to divest...
...even the freshmen admit they have a long way to go in their movement. "We can't say we've won the war just because one university has agreed to divest. The wooly mammoth is not yet saved--it's still extinct," says McDonald...
...McDonald added that the movement has only just begun: "We can't say we've won the war just because one university has agreed to divest. The woolly mammoth is not yet saved--it's still extinct...