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...yesterday. Harvard divested its endowment holdings in PetroChina, a subsidiary of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation, in early 2005, after mounting pressure from students, faculty, and alumni. But the University has maintained shares in other businesses with ties to the Sudanese government, including the oil companies Sinopec and Royal Dutch Shell. The Khartoum government has helped fund militia groups responsible for over 200,000 deaths in Sudan over the past three years, according to the U.S. government. Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice labeled the atrocities a “genocide.” Rebecca J. Hamilton, director...
...imported and what excluded. At the same time, neither in Britain, nor in America, were there laws against opium (or any other drug) until many decades later. Similarly, opium was entirely legal in India. While China was the largest market for Indian opium, respectable quantities were sold to the Dutch in the East Indies (now Indonesia) and to England itself. In 1839, England imported some 100,000 lbs. of Indian opium, and by 1840 it was around 200,000 lbs. There was only some social disapproval. In fact, opium, in the form of laudanum, was in widespread use, and cough...
...Network Stars. The mix of blaring late-'70s soul samples, hand claps and exuberant rhymes by female MC Ninja would be tough to take if there were any winking involved, but such touches as the wistful harmonica on Everyone's a VIP to Someone and the double-Dutch rhythm of We Just Won't Be Defeated betray no other desire than to be the sound track to adventures in your head...
...fiings. That stake would be worth approximately $4.5 million at the close of trading yesterday.Amherst’s divestment last month targeted 19 companies, including Tatneft as well as at least three other stocks that Harvard still owns—Swedish telecom giant Ericsson, energy firm Royal Dutch Shell, and oilfield service provider Schlumberger.—Staff writer Cyrus M. Mossavarahmani can be reached at crahmani@fas.harvard.edu...
Muslim populations in the west are growing and assimilation, although challenging, is non-negotiable. Of course, it is a two-way process and Jyllands-Posten could have refrained from publishing the cartoons to avoid offending Muslims. Nevertheless, the reaction of Muslims undermines their demands; it makes no sense for Dutch Muslim protesters to burn the Danish national flag while claiming that they are not being respected by the state...