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Harvard’s internal stock holdings have tended to favor foreign stocks in recent years, and that trend has continued, according to this latest report. While the proportion of Harvard’s equity holdings invested in emerging market funds has actually decreased slightly, the value of those investments has grown by almost $200 million to $1.6 billion...
Cambridge residents expressed mixed feelings toward the Cambridge City Council last week after it failed to elect a mayor for the seventh time during its latest meeting...
...that, Washington's latest act of largesse, the Kerry-Lugar bill, has unintentionally riled the Pakistani army. The billions came with strings attached. The generals opposed one of the conditions of the bill: that the U.S. must be satisfied that the Pakistani military was fighting terrorism and not, as the legislation said, "subverting the political and judicial processes of Pakistan." Says Talat Masood, a retired general and military analyst in Islamabad: "Some in the army think this is intrusive and a loss to our sovereignty...
...release from detention of a close aide to Burmese democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday could presage the same for the Nobel Peace Prize winner from her latest period of house arrest. It's happened before, when both were released within weeks of each other in 1995. But it does not signal any move on the part of Burma's ruling generals to reconcile with their democratic opponents before elections slated for later this year, analysts and party members said...
...pleas end in a conviction; in England and Wales, that figure is less than 8%. One prominent lawyer, Clive Grossman, once compared Hong Kong's rate of conviction to North Korea's. "An arrested person is, statistically, almost certain to face imprisonment," he wrote in the preface to the latest edition of a criminal-law reference book...