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What's going on here? Many self-described socially responsible funds tailor their investment criteria narrowly, screening companies solely on the basis of, say, promotion of unionized labor or links to abortion. Other funds just knock the worst offenders out of contention and still buy companies that violate stated principles--as long as other companies in the same industry do worse. But even socially responsible funds that weed out a broader swath of companies and corporate practices may wind up not meshing with investors' convictions when it comes down to the gritty details...
...thanks largely to the unending energy of one Mollie H. Chen ’05, I ended up taking on extra duties for them. Mollie, the magazine’s chair, tackles each week’s production night like a mountain lion leaping out of the woods to knock a bicycle rider to the ground. But not a lion that goes for the jugular—a lion that covers the rider’s mouth and tears open his backpack to look for granola bars...
...KNOCK, KNOCK...
...Everything has gone smoothly so far—knock on wood!” said Horan, attributing the success of the production so far to “a phenomenal cast, design team and staff.” She added, “Working with a large cast like this is always challenging, as is the coordination of a large staff, but our producers and design teams have worked unbelievably well to make this show come together...
...lead characters as “M” and “Lady M.” If one should violate this rule, then either the specified blessing must be said immediately, or one has to leave the theater, turn around three times backward, and then knock on the theater door, and wait to be let back in. Seriously...