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Harvard has considered over 100 such resolutions almost every year this past decade, but only voted on 19 this year “due to changes in asset allocation in effect during the 2009 proxy season...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report Details Proxy Voting | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...that waving the Iran card is a useful propaganda ploy in the Arab Middle East. "Although they may have had some evidence of Iranian rhetorical support for the Houthis, I think they took advantage of that limited amount of evidence and blew it up into something bigger to, in effect, justify their own actions." (See 25 people who mattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen's Hidden War: Is Iran Causing Trouble? | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...delayed for another day," he says. "The central government, which has been extremely wary of instability in society, has also come to realize the high political risks caused by the existing regulation." So far the government hasn't outlined the proposed changes, or when they might go into effect. That means that China's recent spate of violent standoffs over property demolitions is unlikely to end soon. With reporting by Jessie Jiang/Beijing

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Property Wars: Fighting Fire with Real Fire | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...scientists went on to demonstrate that the viewers were unaware of the clips' effect. In another part of the study, students were asked to watch the same pro-white and pro-black clips, but this time they were also instructed to be on the look- out for evidence of subtle biased behavior. Afterward, viewers were asked to determine whether white characters or black characters were treated better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: TV May Perpetuate Race Bias | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

...only one right answer to the question. The students had a 50-50 chance of responding correctly - and that's exactly how well they did, no better than chance. In other words, the patterns of bias expressed in the characters' nonverbal behavior were not obvious to the viewers. "The effect [television has] on viewers might be something less than conscious," says Weisbuch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: TV May Perpetuate Race Bias | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

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