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...owning 172,246 shares of stock in Chevron Corp. If the University has held onto those shares—and there’s no reason to believe it hasn’t—they would be worth more than $15 million today. Chevron, meanwhile, owns a 28.3 percent working interest in a production and pipeline venture in Burma. By Chevron’s own account, the venture yielded an average of 683 million cubic feet of natural gas each...
...percent of the country’s export revenue, natural gas sales are the lifeline of the Burmese junta. But Burma’s gas income does not trickle down to the country’s 52 million people, more than 30 percent of whom live below the poverty line. Rather, these petrodollars sate the junta leaders’ appetite for luxury goods and lavish mansions. More disturbingly, according to the Burma Campaign UK, nearly half of the government’s revenue goes to the military. These dollars paid for the guns that were used last week to shoot...
...censorship has been frivolously and over-extensively applied,” said Lawrence Buell, the Cabot Professor of American Literature. “You look back in a rearview mirror and it’s embarrassing the results. I wouldn’t say censorship is categorically one hundred percent to be prohibited, but it is to be applied with extreme care.” Jocelyn Chadwick, a former assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of “The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn,” said yesterday that books...
...more girls. FM set out to confirm this study, using a more familiar tribe. Fifteen female students listened to four equally handsome hunks try to get in their pants via a voice recording, and then attempted to match the boys’ pictures to their sultry tenors. 60 percent of the ladies matched the deepest voice to their personal pick for the hottest hunk. “What can I say? I need a man with a man’s voice,” says Phoebe Stone ’10. But while a manly voice may score...
...Christians polled picked "anti-homosexual" as a negative adjective describing Christianity today. And the view of 85% of non-Christians aged 16-29 that present day Christianity is "hypocritical - saying one thing doing another," was, in fact, shared by 52% of Christians of the same age. Fifty percent found their own faith "too involved in politics." Forty-four percent found it "confusing...