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Another Shakespeare production, still in the planning stage, involves the rise and fall of a Scottish king and offers a variety of rich product- placement opportunities. Three elderly sisters will be cooking onstage throughout the play, sometimes even reciting recipes. A single product reference -- "Eye of newt, toe of frog, one-quarter cup ReaLemon reconstituted lemon juice" -- will be $20,000. An entire couplet will be priced at $40,000. For $60,000, the sisters will say, "Heck, let's just dump this mess and call Domino...
...questions of ethical oversight have arisen from the HMC expansion into the higher risk areas, known as private placement investments...
...good for all of us. We object, however, to the total lack of oversight by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) over such investments. Harvard Management Corporation (HMC), which controls the University's investments, has sunk more than a billion dollars into high-risk, high-yield "private placement" investments, all without a trace of accountability to anyone below the Harvard Corporations...
...Mikhail Gorbachev has continued to hold out for either a neutral Germany or one belonging to both security alliances. Bush's grave concern is that the Soviets may promote unacceptable conditions. They might call for German unification without NATO membership or membership in NATO but modified to forbid the placement of any NATO nuclear weapons on German soil. The latter proposal could become a hot issue in the West German elections scheduled for December, offering a powerful campaign weapon to the opposition Social Democrats, whose calls for a nuclear- free country strike a resonant chord in both Germanys...
...discussion of investment oversight comes at a time when Harvard has increasingly made substantial investments into high-risk areas, which now make up more than 20 percent of the entire endowment. According to the 1988-89 Financial Report, the University now holds nearly $1 billion in "private placement investments," which include venture capital, leveraged buyouts and real estate...