Word: internationale
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5 - A $21 million gift from Albert J. Weatherhead III '50 establishes the Weatherhead International Relations Initiative.
In addition to Nike, Columbia/HCA and Occidental Petroleum, Harvard invests in Elf Aquitaine, TRW, Tyson Foods and American Electric Power, companies which the Multinational Monitor alleges are involved in improprieties including bribery, international coups or maintaining substandard working conditions.
Rubin cited the U.S.'s failure to pay its United Nations dues and its lack of involvement in trade agreements. He also criticized the U.S.'s refusal to give sufficient money to the International Monetary Fund.
Berkman's donation supports the School's Center for Internet and Society, sponsor of last month's international conference on cyberspace. It also funds the newly-created Berkman Professorship for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, a post held by Lawrence Lessig.
And the University's $2.1 billion capital campaign saw two of its biggest gifts directed at individual schools under Harvard's umbrella this year. Albert J. Weatherhead III '50 donated $21 million to "strengthen, expand and endow" international studies at the Center for International Affairs, renamed in honor of the...