Word: indirectness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pagels and Harvard's King try to decipher the document. Why reward Judas? Because Jesus' death helps prove what the Gospel writer thought was Christ's real message: that his--and our--true essence is not flesh but immortal spirit. And the text bad-mouths other disciples as an indirect way of attacking 2nd century Christian bishops who encouraged believers to be martyrs...
...editors: Re: “Drop The Stock,” editorial, Jan. 12. This newspaper’s recent criticism of Harvard Management Company’s (HMC) indirect holdings in companies doing business with the Sudanese government is misinformed and is energy wasted by the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) and The Crimson. Not only do the groups’ allegations fail to understand the possible investment choices given the HMC, but they do not even account for the actual holdings in Harvard’s endowment. The allegations only serve to demonstrate a lack of understanding...
More than 400 students have signed an online petition calling on Harvard to shed its $13 million of indirect holdings in companies that do business with Sudan. The petition comes nearly two years after the University announced it would be divesting from Chinese oil firm PetroChina because of its dealings with the Sudanese government and one year after Harvard announced that it would sell its holdings in Sinopec, another company accused of helping to finance genocide in the Darfur region of the country. On March 1, the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG), with the support of more than 20 University...
...investments of more than $300 million in 23 non-U.S. companies doing business in Sudan. That includes $33.3 million in PetroChina, the oil firm from which Harvard announced its direct divestment two years ago. But as of Dec. 31, Harvard still maintained a total of $13.4 million in indirect holdings in the oil companies Petronas and Sinopec, as well as PetroChina, through investment in funds managed by the British bank Barclays, according to a Crimson report last month. Daniel Millenson from the Sudan Divestment Task Force extolled his organization’s plan of “targeted divestment...
...that up to 200,000 women were compelled to serve in military brothels as "comfort women," a euphemism for virtual sex slaves, many of whom were horribly abused. In 1993, after years of evading responsibility, the Japanese government issued a statement officially acknowledging the army's role - direct or indirect - in the forced prostitution. The reaction across Asia to Abe's remarks was instant and angry, with South Korea's foreign minister calling on Japan to "face the truth," while septuagenarian former sex slaves in the Philippines furiously denounced Abe as a liar...