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Utility investors, including the powerful California and New York public employee-retirement funds, are pressing TXU, whose stock is up about 20% this year, about its aggressive coal strategies. In a letter last May, the two retirement funds, which manage $400 billion in assets, expressed worries about the company "exposing itself to unprecedented compliance costs" should it be forced to retrofit its new coal-fired plants for possible greenhouse-gas limits...
...formal 10-week or longer academic program that counts for College credit, according to the DRCLAS program associate who manages the center’s Cuban Studies arm, Lorena Barberia. The ban on trade with Cuba makes for several unusual travel rules in addition to of the required letter-of-license. When returning home, students will be permitted to carry only $100 worth of merchandise, for which they must have receipts, according to the OIP. The OIP instructs students not to take cell phones into Cuba. Cell phones can only be carried in the country with official authorization, according...
...elsewhere - has deepened the rancor in the debate. Days after the most recent plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic was uncovered by British intelligence, Muslim leaders used the renewed focus on their communities to call for further measures to make them feel at home. An open letter to the Prime Minister signed by 38 Muslim groups in Britain and six politicians even demanded that the government "change our foreign policy to show the world that we value the lives of civilians wherever they live and whatever their religion." British Home Secretary John Reid described the letter...
...Swiss national, was stripped of in 2004 on those grounds? Since giving up the Notre Dame teaching position that visa was intended[an error occurred while processing this directive] for, Ramadan has repeatedly appealed to the U.S. authorities for temporary entry permits to deliver lectures there. A rejection letter from U.S. officials Ramadan made public last week cites a new offense: donating j600 to two Palestinian aid organizations purportedly linked to a group on U.S. and European terror lists - Hamas. Ramadan retorts that the charities' ties to Hamas remain to be proved, while his last donation to them dates...
...coalition of Harvard Law School (HLS) professors and students sent an open letter and petition to Congress this Tuesday, urging Washington to reject the detainee bill. But despite their efforts, the bill passed in Senate yesterday to a 65-34 vote, after more than 10 hours of debate. According to the letter, the bill “would rob individuals detained by the United States of the hallmark of American freedom, the right of anyone detained by the government to demand to know why and to challenge the conditions of confinement before a federal court.” The effort...