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Later that month, Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 and Benjamin B. Collins ’06, both Eliot House juniors at the time, launched an online petition calling on Harvard to pledge that it would not invest in stocks tied to Sudan.
The petition had garnered about 1,000 signatures by the following April, when Harvard bowed to divestment demands and sold its PetroChina stock. All seven other Ivy League schools subsequently announced divestitures from Sudan-related stocks.
Kimberlin channeled several reports of balloting irregularities in the 2006 elections that were sent to his websites to a voting-reform group that used them to challenge the use of Diebold machines in California, where the group brought a case against Diebold, alleging that the company infringed voters' rights by...
In May 2001, TIME published an article about democracy denied in Qixia. A few weeks later, four of the Qixia village chiefs unexpectedly showed up at our Beijing bureau in their new shirts. "There are some peasants to see you," an alarmed assistant announced. "They seem quite scared. You'd...
The Course-Cost Assistance Program (C-CAP) intends to provide a book stipend to financially disadvantaged students. The Undergraduate Council and Students Taking on Poverty Campaign began its crusade last spring, and their recent online petition may finally give the idea some widespread momentum.