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...first U.S. university to divest from a company linked to Sudan when it sold its holdings in PetroChina, a Chinese oil company. One year later, Harvard also divested from Sinopec, another Chinese oil firm.But in January 2007, The Crimson reported that Harvard still maintained indirect holdings in these firms??as well as Petronas, a Malaysian oil firm accused of helping fund the genocide—through its investments in funds managed by the British bank Barclays.Harvard’s holdings in the firms through the three funds were worth $12.8 million at the close of trading yesterday...
...reporters nominated for this year’s finals wrote for The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Seattle Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Miami Herald. Their investigations ranged from an expose of “the tactics of unscrupulous debt collection firms?? in Massachusetts to “unethical manipulation” of stock options by Wall Street executives, according to a statement from the center. Three of the stories that made last year’s final round covered high-profile national issues such as the National Security Agency?...
...What I like about it is that a lot are generalist firms??you get a lot of exposure to a lot of different things,” Topay says. “Hearing what associate consultants have to say at info sessions is that people end up going into work in those industries that they work with...
...comfort—still lacking the time to question ultimately what we are doing with our lives.We might even contentedly take pride in giving to charity every year, being the “good person” within the system, working at one of the “good firms?? that has a minority recruitment program and doesn’t kill arctic seals. But at the end of the day, most of us are going to be walking out of the air-conditioned office, zipping home in the chic sedan, living comfortably while others in this country...
Matt tags along and is soon introduced to the world of “firms??—groups of sports fans who make the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry look like a friendly dinner table debate. Their main forms of recreation prove to be supporting their team, drinking heavily, and beating the fish and chips out of rival firms...