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Summers’ presidency has consisted of a long series of misguided and ill-conceived decisions and it is time to quietly fill in the grave he has dug for himself and find a president to succeed Dr. Bok who will inspire by example and illumination...
...Pentagon’s decision, however, to only target low-level personnel, protect its own brass, and declare a matter of such gravity as closed is a grave injustice to both its own soldiers and the abuse victims. This deceit has further tarred the United States’ global image, and repairing this image must start with the acceptance of responsibility through the immediate resignation of Rumsfeld, lest this sort of gross negligence at the highest levels of our military go unpunished...
...able to expand on Summers’ vision without facing the same roadblocks.Summers knew the rules. He knew the dangers of saying, “I know best,” to a collection of the greatest minds in the world. And yet he still dug his own grave. For the sake of following through on his vision, let’s hope that this fact was due more to the sharpness of the spade rather than to the pliability of the earth. Alex Slack ’06 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears regularly...
Nearly 26 years ago, University President Derek C. Bok wrote that “any policy that encourages the University to engage in boycotts...will have grave disadvantages for the institution.” Yet several events in the past year, including Harvard’s selling its shares of PetroChina, Michigan’s termination of its contract with Coca-Cola, and Stanford’s, Yale’s, and Amherst’s divestment from all companies doing business in Sudan, indicate that this debate is anything but a closed case. And divestment remains in the news?...
Last year’s PetroChina divestment campaign sparked a campus debate on how politicized, if at all, the Harvard endowment should be. The problem with seeking maximum returns in investments is that companies like PetroChina, Sinopec, Unocal that either indirectly facilitate or are directly complicit in grave human rights abuses remain in Harvard’s portfolio. Fortunately, last year the University agreed that Harvard must ensure that its money is not used to facilitate morally bankrupt activity. Citing President Derek C. Bok’s precedent that divestment is reasonable in “exceptional circumstances...