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Despite strong ACSR support for a yes vote on an environmental code of conduct—known as the Ceres Principles—proposed this year to Plum Creek Timber shareholders, the CCSR abstained on the measure. However, a letter by the Corporation committee to the company last spring sought “to express support for the underlying goals of the Ceres Principles,” according to the report...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Proxy Votes, Harvard Abstains on Warming | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

...assault was astonishing. The AARP, formerly a linchpin of the liberal coalition, was trashed by various liberals as a den of insurance-peddling moneygrubbers. House Democrats told me that minority leader Pelosi was twisting arms with unprecedented avidity--anyone who voted in favor was "no longer a Democrat," and plum committee assignments would go only to loyalists. I suspect this reflects desperation as much as principle. The Bush Administration is outsmarting the Democrats at every turn. The economy seems to be recovering. If Iraq is stabilized--a huge if--what will the Democrats run on? Their intellectual cupboard is bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Democrats Are All Boxed In | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...work. For acoustics designers like Yasuhisa Toyota, success arrives when an audience is rapt in the music, oblivious to the complicated physics it takes to project a Beethoven symphony with warmth and clarity. Toyota is the director of Nagata Acoustics, a tiny Tokyo company that has just completed a plum assignment: collaborating with architect Frank Gehry on the long-awaited $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened to critical praise in Los Angeles in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Perfect Pitch | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

Here's entertainment you can take with you. We found Wrapgammon under Gifts to Go on the Plum's Picks main page. Ghurka.com (see above) also sells a delightful backgammon travel set--for $295. This $36 vinyl version suits us just fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Shopping Guide: For The Globetrotter | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

Neill is also a Divinity School student working on a doctoral dissertation about feminist theories and the body, in light of new reproductive technologies. She arrives at FM’s designated meeting place looking decidedly un-Divinity School in cranberry lipstick, a coordinating plum top and skirt and flats. She may look cute, but inside she is all business. Her mission—organize the closets of Harvard students...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Closet Case | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

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