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...year in office, Ma has reached many milestones in relations with China, such as establishing direct transportation and closer economic ties, all of which are helping Taiwan weather the financial storm. But his approval ratings have dropped dramatically after Morakot. "President Ma faces a very serious crisis," says Chiu Hei-yuan, a sociologist at National Taiwan University. "He'll still have a chance if he does very well with the reconstruction." That won't come cheap: the estimate is $3.3 billion...
Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) posted 400 Valentines in the Science Center this week to protest University investment with HEI Hotels and Resorts, a company accused of violating its workers’ rights. The valentines read, “I love Harvard because [blank] but I’d love it even more if it invested responsibly.” Students filled in the blanks with individualized thoughts, such as “it is a second home,” “it’s so diverse...
...early on that there was a lot of interest in endowments, even before the economic collapse,” said conference organizer Jonathan F. Bowman ’11. The Harvard and Yale student groups that co-hosted the conference first connected through a nationwide campaign against investment in HEI Hotels and Resorts, a private equity company that buys and sells hotels. The company—which faces ongoing labor disputes for mistreatment of its workers—draws 80 percent of its funding from endowments, including those of Harvard and Yale. “HEI is a piece...
...discussion yesterday organized by the Harvard Student Labor Action Movement. Martinez has been working as a waitress at the Hilton Hotel in Long Beach, Calif. for 11 years. She said that working conditions have degenerated since the management of the hotel was turned over four years ago to HEI Hotels and Resorts, a company supported by funds from various university endowments. “The way they manage those hotels is just horrible,” Martinez said. “Before, when it was the Hilton, we had double the employees. Now they are trying...
...Medical school teaching hospital received a $1 million National Institute of Health (NIH) grant to purchase high-technology imaging equipment that will be instrumental to cancer research, the hospital announced Wednesday. The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) was one of 14 institutions to receive the High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant, with which the hospital will install a multimodality pre-clinical imaging platform. The device—which will be used by the hospital’s Longwood Small Animal Imaging Facility (SAIF)—can perform three different types of X-ray imaging of plane sections...