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Even if University divestment has a negligible impact on PetroChina or the government in Sudan, we consider dumping the shares to be a moral imperative. In the recent past, we have declined to call for Harvard to divest from investments that were at best ethically neutral, such as the money Harvard had in conglomerates that owned defense contractors before the Iraq War. Not every case for divestment is as clear as this one. The money Harvard made off its PetroChina investment is bloodstained crimson; if the University still has holdings in PetroChina, it should get rid of them immediately...
What moves those potential voters? With its emphasis on moral issues, Focus on the Family is trying to buck conventional wisdom, which says, according to polls done for the nonpartisan National Council of La Raza and others, that Hispanics care about education above all, with jobs and the economy a strong second. "They think family values are about putting food on the table and sending a child to college," says Sergio Bendixen, pollster for the New Democrat Network, a centrist Democratic group that is spending more than $6 million on Spanish-language...
...that he is on the wrong side. A new TIME poll, conducted after last week's third presidential debate (see chart, pages 36-37), suggests that wedge issues, which normally work to the Republicans' advantage, are not a big G.O.P. plus this time. Asked whom they trust to handle "moral-values issues such as gay marriage and abortion," more voters chose Bush (44%) than Kerry (42%), though the difference was within the margin for error. In early September the numbers were 51% to 37% in Bush's favor...
...when Sistani speaks, Iraqis obey. At 74, the Shi'ite spiritual leader is widely acknowledged as the conscience of the nation, armed with a unique moral authority to arbitrate Iraq's future. Though he was quiet during the long, hard years of Shi'ite repression under Saddam Hussein, Sistani has emerged since the dictator's fall as the country's pivotal political figure. Iraq's Kurds and Sunnis, as well as Shi'ites, pay heed to his views. His reach extends as far as Washington, where he has repeatedly forced the Bush Administration to yield to his demands and issued...
That may give many Americans pause as they contemplate the U.S. investment in the embattled country's future. But Sistani's moral stature and unyielding push for a new democratic order have made him America's best hope for preventing Iraq from spinning into anarchy. His intervention in Najaf paved the way for the deal cut last week, by which al-Sadr agreed to disarm his militia and enter the political arena. Here's the story of how Sistani became the country's supreme power and what he envisions for Iraq...