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...holdings in three of those funds declined slightly during the first quarter of 2007, according to filings last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But the student divestment movement has picked up steam throughout the spring.Divestment from the University’s indirect holdings, however, may prove difficult.‘MUCH TRICKIER’In April 2005, Harvard became the first U.S. university to divest from a company linked to Sudan when it sold its holdings in PetroChina, a Chinese oil company. One year later, Harvard also divested from Sinopec, another Chinese oil firm.But in January...
...debate in Congress, that it’s high time to scale back the number of American troops in the region. Even if he is averse to withdrawal on Congress’s terms, he should do so on his own. Although Bush claims that withdrawing from Iraq would prove disastrous to the future of the country and the region, recent events, as well as the relatively flat trajectory of progress, have shown that American involvement isn’t improving the situation. A case in point is the 12-foot wall on which the United States military began construction...
...Literatures Mary M. Gaylord said that “significant issues” concerning timing, nature, and uses of the evaluations have to be addressed before they become mandatory. As Skocpol prepares to step down from her post at the end next month, the push for universal evaluation may prove to be the last public act of her deanship. Professors voted to refer questions surrounding evaluations to the Committee on Pedagogical Improvement for further review. At a meeting in May 2006, professors failed to reach a quorum for a binding vote on the same matter even as some of them...
...kind of just want to prove a point," he said, "that it's so frickin' close you can easily walk there...
...bucked the National Rifle Association by supporting the Brady Bill and an assault-weapons ban, boasting, "I don't line up with the N.R.A." Lately what he brags about is that he joined the gun-rights organization as a life member - last August. Romney has been so eager to prove his Second Amendment bona fides that he boasted in New Hampshire, "I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." But then his campaign admitted he had actually hunted only twice, once as a teenager and then last year, on a trip with G.O.P. donors. That was followed...