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...shareholder proposals that Harvard considered this year dealt with oil and gas corporation Exxon Mobil...
Earlier in the decade, the CCSR recommended that the University divest itself of stock held in PetroChina Company and Sinopec Corporation due to concerns about the oil companies’ ties with the Sudanese government and the ongoing Darfur humanitarian crisis in the country...
...time for Harvard students to rise up like our predecessors to protest our modern equivalent—the cuts to hot breakfast. After all, the usurpation of our morning meal has a historical precedent, too. In the late 1970s, the university, facing budget cuts and an oil crisis, stripped students of their dietary rights. But even then, it did so with a few basic provisions to ensur the health, safety, and satisfaction of its students. The administration lowered board costs to reflect the change, and still served hot breakfast during exam period so that students trudging Yardward to take exams...
...Worked for 20 years in the oil and gas industry, most of it at Mosbacher Energy, where she was a software analyst. Also co-owned a bookstore and an income tax company...
Despite the plethora of miracles, Roberts was no match for the charismatic, mainstream electricity generated by his contemporary Billy Graham. There was always the reek of snake oil to Roberts' piety, hence his long attempt at seeking respectability: joining the United Methodist Church in the late 1960s and giving up the rootlessness of his evangelism. The Methodists, however, would later condemn his methods. For a while, his hospital and academic empire helped make him a pillar of Tulsa society. But the kind of faith he espoused was made of constant appeals to his audience to prove...