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...April 2005, the Harvard Corporation, the University’s senior governing body, instructed Harvard’s endowment managers not to invest directly in PetroChina. Harvard’s move kick-started a nationwide divestment campaign: Since then, 20 U.S. states and more than 50 universities have followed Harvard’s lead and cut their direct ties to PetroChina. Harvard’s move sent a clear message to PetroChina: If you keep on supporting the genocidal regime in Sudan, you will face serious financial repercussions, and your access to worldwide capital markets will be limited...
...thing that did go well for the Crimson was its goaltending. Hahn, although only credited with four saves, had a much bigger day than the statistics would indicate. His greatest effort came in the waning minutes with Harvard trying to find the equalizer. Dartmouth lined up a free kick outside the 18-yard box that looked destined for the upper corner the moment it was struck. Just inches before the ball crossed the goal plane, Hahn leaped across the net and punched the shot over the crossbar to keep the game within one. “Another great game...
...years old, the heir apparent to one of Iraq's two leading Shi'ite dynasties, and a few weeks ago in Ramadi, he did something quite remarkable. He went to meet and make peace with the more than 100 Sunni sheiks who led the movement to kick al-Qaeda in Iraq out of Anbar province. He was accompanied by the leader of his family's militia, the Badr Organization, which was lethally anti-Sunni until recently. The Hakim delegation was ferried to the meeting in Black Hawk helicopters by the U.S. military. "It was quite a scene," a U.S. military...
...front turns into a minotaur. Then take two more. 8. Take four shots every time Johnny Depp takes off his hat to reveal male pattern baldness. How’s that for ‘fear’? 9. Drink a responsible amount every time your mom-instincts kick in. Anything from thinking, “Use two hands with your revolver, Benicio!” to, “Haven’t you had enough, Johnny!?” counts. 10. Finish the bottle if you come to the conclusion that this is as much a drug movie...
...Fortunately, the Iraqi Kurdish problem is fixable. For a start, Jalal Talabani will have to stop acting like a Kurdish national resistance leader and more like a President. What he has to do is kick the Turkish Workers' Party, the PKK, out of Iraq. I am told it would be fairly easy because most of the PKK's fighters operate from within Turkey rather than Iraq...