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Despite its large benefits package, Columbia has also faced opposition from community groups as it lobbied New York for approval of its plan. Columbia says it will not use the power of eminent domain on residential properties but reserves the right to request the state to consider using eminent domain on commercial properties...
Snow days, long the domain of schoolchildren, apparently exist at Harvard as well—just not for its students...
Until recently, this was a specialized niche. But now it "has gone from being the exclusive domain of some clean-tech funds to being a demand of major investors," says Nick Robins, head of the HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence. Indeed, buyers today have their pick of hedge funds that focus on rapid-fire trading to corporate pension funds that are required to put some portion of their money in socially responsible investments. Meanwhile, a slew of new mutual funds is selling individual investors on the heady growth prospects of companies in areas like cleaner energy or environmentally friendly...
...external provider. Following this fall’s successful launch of Google mail accounts for new students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), FAS Information Technology (IT) has begun exploring the possibility of a similar pilot program for students in the College. As with the GSD system, the domain name of students’ e-mail addresses—fas.harvard.edu—would remain the same, although a third-party service would supply the storage space, interface, and all else an e-mail account entails. To this end, a survey carried out by FAS IT last week polled...
...intermarriage, were quietly negotiated by both courts. But now, Shari'a courts are increasingly refusing to accept conversions out of Islam, arguing that apostasy is illegal in the Muslim faith. At the same time, civil courts have become less willing to rule on religious issues they say are the domain of the Muslim legal system. In a landmark case earlier this year, the nation's highest court decided that it had no jurisdiction to deem a person non-Muslim, because that is the Shari'a courts' prerogative...