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Jesse A. Sage ‘98, associate director of the American Anti-Slavery Group, which is coordinating divestment efforts nationally, wrote in an e-mail yesterday that “there’s no reason Harvard investments should support corporations that exploit the current loophole that allows multinationals to partner with a genocidal regime and access American wallets...
However, to achieve this goal, these American Africans must heed Garvey’s advice and abandon slavish allegiance to political parties which unabashedly exploit anti-black sentiment or fail to deliver on any of their promises made in black churches. Instead, they should pledge allegiance to programs of racial uplift worldwide. Black people should support President Bush in his efforts to save the lives of other black people, including those in Darfur, while vociferously condemning his efforts that hurt them, such as ending affirmative action, withholding money from global AIDS funding and overthrowing the democratically elected government of Haiti...
...seller who has little or no positive feedback from other eBay users, drop-off services can offer peace of mind: many of the more experienced ones are part of a kind of approved guild in the competitive world of online selling. Typically, drop-off businesses will also exploit the eBay Shop service, which offers any serious trader his or her own dedicated Web address, and allows buyers to search each seller's own "shop" for listings. Officially, eBay claims that it tries to treat all sellers equally. "We demand that drop-off locations follow the same rules that every other...
Because Clooney thinks of celebrity as something that is happening to him rather than who he is, he's able to exploit the power of fame for creative control. Since forming the production company Section Eight in 2000 with director Steven Soderbergh, with whom he had worked on Out of Sight, Clooney the producer has used Clooney the actor as barter. He did it to get Warner Bros. to make next year's Good Night and Good Luck, a movie about Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joseph McCarthy that CBS, Murrow's old network, had passed...
...actually doubled in the years during which Arafat told Palestinians he was negotiating an end to the Israeli presence - finally exploded in the second intifada in September of 2000. As much as Arafat rode, and encouraged that wave of outrage, hoping - foolishly, as it turned out - that he could exploit a surge of violence to win new concessions at the negotiating table, close observers of Palestinian politics read the uprising also as a rebellion against the "Old Guard" running the PA, and a violent negation of their politics...