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...Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing board, directed the school’s endowment managers yesterday to sell the Sinopec shares after the Corporation’s Committee on Shareholder Responsibility—which comprises Robert D. Reischauer ’63, an economist, and James R. Houghton ’58, the chairman of the glass and fiber-optic company Corning—recommended divestment. In a statement yesterday, the Committee on Shareholder Responsibility said that Sinopec is a partner in a venture that will significantly increase oil production in southeastern Sudan in the coming months...
...leader of the Congress Party and the ruling Congress-led coalition, but stepped down as MP for the northern Indian district of Rae Bareli on Thursday to deflect opposition allegations that her chairmanship of a government think-tank broke parliamentary conflict-of-interest rules. Singh, meanwhile, is an unelected economist appointed by Gandhi herself almost two years ago after she recorded a surprise win in India's general election but declined the top job because of nationalist protests against her immigrant roots...
...Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing board, directed the school’s endowment managers today to sell the Sinopec shares after the Corporation’s Committee on Shareholder Responsibility—which comprises Robert D. Reischauer ’63, an economist, and James R. Houghton ’58, the chairman of the glass and fiber-optic company Corning—recommended divestment. In a statement today, the Committee on Shareholder Responsibility said that Sinopec is a partner in a venture that will significantly increase oil production in southeastern Sudan in the coming months...
...Bush?and Hu?manage to mollify those in Congress spoiling for a fight, then the risk of a trade war breaking out will ease. And eventually, free-market mechanisms?not ham-handed political intervention?may resolve the current bilateral trade tension. Jun Ma, chief China economist at Deutsche Bank, believes China is now in the midst of a historic economic shift. Investment spending is decelerating and consumption is picking up, although the shift is likely to take years to unfold. That, in turn, could bring China's trade surpluses down, as new opportunities open up for foreign companies that make...
...fiefdoms run by local warlords: In Gaza, on Monday, Fatah-aligned gunmen who attacked a Palestinian police station and electricity utility were repelled by mostly Fatah-aligned Palestinian policemen. Hamas, meanwhile, has picked a cabinet designed to show a responsible face to the world: Its nominee for finance minister, economist Omar Abdel Razzak, has said that financial cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians is in the best interests of both sides, and should continue. He believes it will, since he also thinks Israel will move towards making a reluctant accommodation with a Hamas-led government once its own election...