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Furthermore, if professors are intent on improving the Middle East or any other troubled part of the globe, they have their work cut out for them—as academics. How about raising a matching fund of $20 million at Harvard to establish in Saudi Arabia an institute for the study of democracy? Academics who believe in the merits of an open university can do no better than to encourage the free spread of information and of competitive ideas to parts of the world where such privilege is discouraged or denied...
...took my bra off, you’d see how real they are.”With that dispute settled, the “Catwoman” star next engaged in a dance-off against the Pudding’s counterpart “Dogman” to establish whether she was an “action star” or a “dramatic superstar.”Shaking her booty to “Dontcha” by the Pussycat Dolls and “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mixalot, the 39-year...
...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...