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Divestment advocate John Prendergast, the National Security Council’s director of African affairs during the Clinton administration, said Sunday that the University should pull out of the Barclays iShares arrangement...
Divestment advocate John Prendergast, who was director of African affairs for the National Security Council under President Clinton, said that Harvard should pull out of the iShares fund...
...correct, this points to the hidden danger of divestment: that shares in companies considered divested still continue to be owned indirectly through mutual funds and other equity arrangements,” Prendergast wrote in an e-mail. “A fuller scrub of all investment tools is required, and shouldn’t be left to university newspapers to uncover...
...groups, according to U.N. sources. The program was an open secret in Somalia and among the African diplomatic corps, but its only success was to bolster support for the Islamic Courts among a population weary of anarchy and opposed to foreign meddling. "It was a spectacular disaster," says John Prendergast of the International Crisis Group. "Not only were the militia leaders routed, but the U.S. and CIA support for these militias led to strengthened support for the Islamic Courts...
...champions of Picasso. By that year Picasso and Braque were already off and running through the first stages of Cubism. Meanwhile, advanced American painting, such as it was, meant the Ashcan School realism of Robert Henri and John Sloan or the agreeable borrowings of Childe Hassam and Maurice Prendergast, who were still absorbing what they could from Postimpressionism. Even Czanne had not entered much into American thinking, much less Cubism and its fierce extrapolations from Czanne's faceted space...