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By providing PetroChina with such vital services, UBS squandered a tremendous opportunity to use its leverage to engage PetroChina on its connection to Sudan. Prior to PetroChina’s IPO, an international petition, along with three Nobel laureates, and nongovernmental organizations in 15 countries, called on UBS to make...
The troubles for Nova don't end there. Court-appointed lawyers investigating the case allege that Sahashi, who has been fired by the board and hasn't been seen in public since June, had turned his company into something of a personal piggy bank; they accuse him of misappropriation and...
...subject as human beings, ensures that no plan will be foolproof. Such a realization should not force us subsequently to withhold our moral outrage against the Darfur atrocities. But to recognize the abomination is not to discover the cure. Surely, the intricate market mechanisms, for which the Darfur petitioners think they have fully accounted, will not operate as predictably as they do in theory. By asserting Americans’ moral obligation to petition for divestment, these activists confuse and contort politics. The obligation—to sign a petition and forget about it—so insignificant and so menial...
The committee’s petition also quotes a paper by Harvard sociology professor Neil Gross as saying that “a greater percentage of social scientists today feels their academic freedom has been threatened than was the case during the McCarthy era.”
“These groups have targeted scholars who have expressed perspectives on Israeli policies and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with which they disagree,” the petition said.