Word: divestments
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...Chen as he goes to work at his presidential offices. "I think the President may consider our building an eyesore," says KMT spokesman Tsai Cheng-yuan. Some members say publicly that they should return all questionable assets to the government, rather than face the humiliation of being forced to divest. Coming clean would, says KMT parliamentarian Wu Den-yi, "relieve the party of a historical burden." Even if the cost is its showcase headquarters, the KMT may find it's time to leave its lucrative past behind...
...esteemed Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke and Pierce Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama called in a recent op-ed (“For Human Rights,” Sept. 23) for Harvard to divest from “military aid and investments in Israel.” Their divestment petition itself calls on Harvard, “to divest from Israel, and from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel...
This position, while itself offensively and irresponsibly one-sided and misguided, is also quite disingenuous. “Divestment from military occupation,” a reader might muse, “Well, now, that might sound reasonable.” The reader would do well to examine the list of companies slated by Nakayama, Spelke and their colleagues for divestment, available at the petition website. The list includes such military giants as McDonald’s, IBM, International Paper and Lehmann Brothers. Are our faculty urging Harvard to pull its funds away from the infamous “Cheeseburger...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers for voicing his opinion. Summers’ speech was moderate and personal, and he precisely said that the petition is among the actions that are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” The editorial suggests that divestment is no more an attack on the people of Israel “than opposition to the Bush’s administration’s policies is an attack on the American people”. However, it has not at any time been proposed to divest from the U.S. businesses...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers and others on campus continue to trade blows over a recent petition calling on Harvard to divest from Israel, faculty have begun to publicly line up on another controversial Middle East issue—whether the U.S. should invade Iraq...