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...stock for strictly financial reasons. Harvard President Derek Bok argues that advocates of stock divestiture are "counseling us to run from evil rather than work to overcome it." Harvard's policy is to use its $565 million worth of stock in companies that operate in South Africa as a lever to get them to observe the Sullivan principles...
Wish you had easier access to your pinot? Fit the Icon Ratchet Action Corkscrew from Prodyne over the top of a wine bottle and twist. Once the corkscrew's "worm" (spiral) is fully engaged, two quick and easy cranks of the lever pop the cork right out. $20; spring...
When Mather-, Dunster- and Lever-ites return to Harvard this fall, they’ll find themselves sharing the East River with wrecking balls and cement mixers. The songs of sparrows, dog barks along the Leverett-Dunster walkway, the gentle whirring of Louie’s fluorescent Busch beer sign—all gone, muffled by the sounds of gas and steel...
...counter-productive because it hardens attitudes in Israel and destroys international support for the Palestinian cause. Instead, he believes non-violent tactics and diplomacy are the best route to the objective of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Marwan Barghouti sees armed struggle as an indispensable lever in pursuit of the same goal, seeing it as a complement to talks because he believes that the Palestinians capacity to wage an armed intifada is surer leverage at the negotiating table than relying on the goodwill of the United States...
Clay Mitchell climbs into his combine, pulls a lever and sits back as the lumbering machinery crashes into a 40-acre cornfield. As the front of the machine noses through the furrows like 13 red moles, chomping at the stocks and churning ears into grain, Mitchell checks his e-mail on a wireless laptop, downloads the moisture content of corn being stored...