Word: establish
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...scribbling friends, it was not to be. Though Blair himself was stuck in South Africa by a malfunctioning plane, a controversial measure compelling those applying for a new passport to also get an identity card passed the House comfortably. Two days later, so did an equally contested plan to establish a criminal offense of "glorifying terrorism." At the end of the week, Blair was still in 10 Downing Street, Brown was still his next-door neighbor, and London's journalists were left wondering how they would keep their readers' interest in the longest-running soap opera in politics...
...tactic used by organizers to manufacture an opportunity to talk about the actual issues. In this light, Summers did the petition-circulators an immense favor: he catapulted a hopeless divestment call from obscure e-mail lists to the pages of The New York Times. Summers likely did this to establish in the national press a strong test for discrimination with respect to anti-Semitism. (Summers, notably, would never support such strong a test for discrimination on any other issue.) He harnessed the same power of the divestment demand that the organizers had attempted...
Among the issues facing Harvard, few are as important—or as longstanding—as how the University should deal with ethically questionable investments. Unfortunately, Harvard employs an antiquated and ad hoc system under which the University profits from injustice. Harvard must establish standards that allow potentially dangerous investments to be pre-screened so that divestment does not have to be used as a last resort...
...Corporation must also establish a set of guidelines on ethical investing, something Harvard has considered in the past but failed to do. In 1971, President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 and the Harvard Corporation wrote to the University Governance Commission that “Harvard will not make investments which, according to information which has come to our attention and which we believe is reliable, support activities whose primary impact is contrary to fundamental and widely shared ethical principles.” Pusey’s vision of a systematic and proactive social investment strategy was wide-ranging...
...first salvo and taking a leading role, after almost a year Harvard lags far behind other institutions in the scope of its decision. If Harvard is to remain a leader in the field of ethical investing—or an ethical investor at all—the University must establish both a set of ethical investment standards and a proactive system to check that such standards are being...