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...Yale University President Richard Levin called for the divestment of Yale’s endowment from Sudan. In the 1980s, Harvard divested over $160 million from companies operating in South Africa to protest the apartheid government. As one of the most highly visible educational institutions in the world with an enormous endowment, Harvard possesses tremendous symbolic leverage over the Sudanese regime. Harvard should embrace the cause of divestment and take the lead in forcing Sudanese compliance with humanitarian...
Speakers at the GESO protest pointed out that several women faculty face occupational barriers such as insufficient health care and childcare, and some female workers feel a lack of respect and job security, according to The Yale Daily News...
...Coalition for an Anti-Sexist Harvard, meanwhile, plans to rally in front of the Science Center this afternoon to protest Summers’ stance on women’s issues, which they say is unacceptably insensitive, and call on him to resign...
Students for Larry, which had collected over 350 online signatures by yesterday evening on an op-ed originally published Friday in The Crimson, is considering a counter-protest...
...kept a tight grip on its client state, exercised through the 14,000 military and intelligence forces still based around Beirut and the Bekaa Valley. But opposition to the Syrian presence has grown. Damascus made a serious miscalculation last August when it manipulated the constitution. Hariri resigned in protest and quietly backed the U.N. resolution sponsored by France and the U.S. calling on Syria to depart. Since then, Hariri appeared to be joining political forces with the opposition to dominate parliamentary elections scheduled for May, in what would have amounted to a referendum on Syria's occupation...