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This second case of divestment from a firm doing business in the Sudan also compels us to call on Harvard Management Company (HMC) to disclose all of its holdings in firms with significant commercial activities in the Sudan and with the Khartoum regime. While we still believe that HMC cannot feasibly operate with constant oversight of all its holdings, the Sudanese genocide is an exceptional circumstance that warrants extreme measures such as disclosure, and possibly divestment. It would be hypocritical of the University to hide its holdings on foreign stock exchanges of other oil companies doing business in the Sudan...
...service is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. A native of Great Neck, N.Y., and a 2003 graduate of Williams College, Shakir was an active member of the Harvard Law School Council, the International Law Society, and the Public Interest Auction. She worked with the New York law firm Kramer and Levin over the past summer, where she assisted the firm in its successful effort to win political asylum for a persecuted Togolese woman. Michael J. Sternhell, one of the attorneys who worked on the case, said that Shakir was “very, very well thought of here?...
...ahead and not go the law firm route, although I did manage to go 0-for-2 at places I’d worked as a summer associate, in terms of getting job offers...
...icons of the conservative movement, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister. He did post-graduate work at the University of Reading in England and was a founding treasurer and director of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation. In Dallas, he served as CEO of The Grantham Company, the investment firm founded by Thatcher's son Mark and named for the legendary prime minister's home district of Grantham in London...
...Thaksin, a telecom tycoon who took office in 2001, has sired plenty of quarrels lately. Since January his critics, centered around Bangkok and the insurgent-plagued southern part of the country, have used the $1.9 billion tax-free sale of his family-owned firm to foreign investors as a rallying cry for demonstrations demanding change. Their noisy campaign prompted Thaksin to dissolve parliament and call snap elections, confident that his party machine would deliver the necessary votes on Apr 2. It did - over 50% of Thai voters kept the faith with the ruling Thai Rak Thai party, especially...