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...report released on Friday, the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR)—the two-member panel responsible for reviewing ethical issues surrounding the University’s investments??examined two issues that relate to companies with alleged links to Darfur. They explored the issue of “indirect” investments in Sudan, and they considered the consequences of adopting a broader set of criteria for divestment...
...while lauding his own efforts to raise teacher salaries and increase graduation standards. These changes, according to Bloomberg, have decreased the quitting rate of teachers from 12,000 annually to 5,000 this year. Bloomberg added that his tax hike and controversial smoking ban were other “investments?? that had turned out to be “good for the people of New York.” “The public is a lot smarter than we give them credit for, so maybe we can stop pandering to them,” said Bloomberg, echoing...
Though Chicago and Princeton made different decisions on divestment, both laid out policies that encompass their indirect and direct investments??unlike Harvard, which has treated each type of investment differently...
There is no way of avoiding confrontations on ethical issues regarding investments??students have and will continue to force them on the administration as long as the President and Corporation fail to give real power to the ACSR to actively monitor Harvard’s portfolio. Bitter and divisive fights with students and alumni are not worth the cost—last year’s Senior Gift controversy as well as the shantytown protests over apartheid at commencements in the 1980s could have been avoided if a body like the ACSR were continuously screening investments...
...cuts and the war in Iraq—which she labeled a “grotesque mistake”—are the real culprits for the large federal budget deficit. “There will be those who say that we can’t afford these investments??Democrats believe we can’t afford not to make them,” Pelosi said. “These are critical priorities for our nation, [and] we intend to submit them to the rigors of pay-as-you-go budgeting so they will...