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Harvard’s recent purchase of a timber forest in New Zealand is just the first step in the quest for worthwhile investments for its ever-growing endowment. FM has uncovered a top-secret list of the next 15 properties Harvard is looking to purchase...
...boycotts could get the international support they need to be effective against transnational corporations such as Coca-Cola. Coke contracts have come under fire at Columbia, NYU, University of Vermont and University of California, Berkeley to name a few, and contracts have already been terminated at Bard College, Lake Forest College and at bars and colleges in Ireland. So far, Harvard’s involvement has been limited to bringing Colombian workers to campus to speak about the repression but Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, a member of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and the Progressive Student Labor...
...Musharraf has already gone too far in appeasing the White House. Khan's travel has been restricted, and even inside Pakistan, he is always accompanied by two military officers. He rarely leaves his Islamabad mansion except to venture out to feed wild monkeys that swing down in the nearby forest. Officials in Washington meanwhile cross their fingers that Musharraf can and will make sure that with Khan sealed away, Pakistan's nuclear giveaway is over...
...first volume of his musical works on mushrooms, may be a bit extreme, but the Czechs are nuts about mushrooms. Seven of 10 Czechs spend at least one day a year foraging. Though every forager keeps his best places secret, mushrooms can be found in almost any kind of forest. But it's not a sport for the uninitiated. There are some 1,500 edible varieties and hundreds of poisonous ones, and the safe and the unsafe often look remarkably alike. Beginners are advised to take along a trained mycologist...
...real saints around these days, but they've been turning up pretty regularly in the media: CBS's surprise hit Joan of Arcadia, David Guterson's Our Lady of the Forest, not to mention Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. You can see the appeal of these stories: there's something a touch American about people who transcend ordinary mortal failings to become saints. They're like the spiritual equivalent of Horatio Alger...