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Interim President Derek C. Bok wrote in an e-mail yesterday: "I haven’t any knowledge at all about PetroChina or any dealings with it by the University, past or present...
Even at its present size, Harvard’s estimated investment in the iShares China fund accounts for just 0.18 percent of the University's $29.2 billion endowment, and the stakes in PetroChina and Sinopec compose just 0.02 percent of Harvard's total wealth...
...that’s not true. You know there’s as much nothingness involved in a complicated structure as there is in a big empty field. So the nothingness that we’re approaching here is kind of like—it’s as present in pop music as it is in anything else except in this case it’s kind of pointing towards it. It’s saying this space here listen—it gives a little bit of intelligence to the listener as far as attending. Where...
...while the ISG’s report has its virtues—namely, highlighting the failures of the present strategy—it is nonetheless undermined by several critical flaws. The report deserves consideration, but ultimately Bush should not adopt its call for a set date for leaving Iraq. A “new way forward” must indeed be found in Iraq, but the ISG report doesn’t fit the bill...
...Well, not so fast. It's true that no Americans were actually present at the gallows when it became a sectarian shop of horrors. Though there are serious questions about whether Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki abided by Iraq's own laws when he decided to speed up the execution, it's hard to argue that the U.S., even if it were so inclined, could have done anything to prevent the hanging at such a late hour. But it's disingenuous to argue that the Bush Administration bears no responsibility for the ugliness that transpired...