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...back to two children per family," he says. "But even if we were able to do that, our population would continue to decline for decades because we've got an old population, and that means a higher death rate." Last year's RAND study found that countries that invest in policies to make it easier to have and raise children tend to have higher fertility rates than those that don't. The parade example is France, which after Ireland has the highest rate in Europe, 1.89. "France has always had a strong family policy," says demographer Marie...
...Harvard faculty members, including two house masters, sign a petition to President Lawrence H. Summers, calling on Harvard and M.I.T. to sell their $620 million in the stocks of companies that do business in Israel. 300 Harvard professors sign a petition that urges President Summers to continue to invest in Israel. In October, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz accuses Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson, who signed the divestment petition, of anti-semitism and challenges him to a debate on the subject; Hanson declines and Dershowitz calls him a bigot in front of a group of 200 students...
Collins and Bhatnagar believe that there is a “clear and overwhelming” moral case for divestment and cite Harvard’s commitment to socially responsible investing. “We also hope that the petition will help raise awareness not only about the local issue of Harvard’s responsibility to invest ethically, but also about the $90 billion that private American citizens, mutual funds and institutional investors currently have invested in companies linked to the Sudanese government...
Students and professors agree that it is unconscionable for Harvard’s Management Company to invest in these companies. Now is the time for students and endowment managers to demonstrate Harvard’s well-established leadership on human rights issues by demanding the disclosure of every portfolio company active in Sudan...
...they want to tell us, do not invest in PetroChina, then we won’t,” said Jack Meyer, president of the Harvard Management Company, which invests the University endowment. While last quarter’s filings indicate Harvard owned the stock as of Sept. 30, Meyer declined to say whether Harvard still owns PetroChina today, citing longstanding policy at the managment company...