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...Chinese oil companies was accomplished last year—but it brought no financial loss to the real offenders. (Speculators jubilantly bought up what Harvard sold, and they and Chinese oil alike won on the deal). Some reply this activism was better than nothing; in fact, it was equal to nothing. It even failed to deliver the promised, lasting “awareness” of the genocide, which has once again seeped beneath the notice of Harvard students...
...other hand, the University argues that legacy preference confers only a slight advantage on alumni children. Harvard’s admissions director, Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, describes legacy preference as “a feather on the scale if all else is equal.” By this logic, the vast majority of legacies would have been admitted on their own achievements regardless of the policy. But if that’s true, the vast majority of alumni parents would have donated regardless of whether such a policy were in place. If legacy...
...Isaac sued the University after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission granted him a “right-to-sue notice” in April 1980, and, after a nine-year battle, eventually settled the suit out of court, with Harvard agreeing to pay for his legal fees and as well as offering to give him a position as a Fellow...
...constitution, about non-discrimination before the law. Following in the wake of several fiery speeches proclaiming victory against military interference and exhortations to carry on the good fight, his talk was remarkably tame. Boring even. But the audience was rapt. "In the eyes of the law all citizens are equal. I appreciate that you are struggling for a free and independent judiciary and supremacy of law. Your struggle is unprecedented in the history of Pakistan," he said. "It is the basic responsibility of the courts to protect the fundamental rights of the people." Not once did he mention his case...
Nigeria pumped its first barrel in the 1950s and has since set records for corruption. The government's own anticorruption watchdog, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, estimates that between independence in 1960 and 1999, the country's rulers stole $400 billion in oil revenues - equal to all the foreign aid to Africa during the same period. And while a small élite became rich, its members fought one another for the spoils. In 47 years, Nigeria has suffered a civil war that killed a million people, 30 years of military rule and six coups. Meanwhile, two-thirds...