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...fact, the sixth year in a row that shareholder activist Robert Monks, representing clients at his investment advisory firm, presented the resolution at the Exxon annual meeting. Over the years, the percentage of shareholders voting with Monks has increased from about 20% to 40% last year. With the backing of the Rockefeller family, hopes were high for a better showing this year, even though only 10 such proposals have ever managed to garner majority support, according to RiskMetrics, a firm that advises proxy voting. If the vote had reached a majority, it wouldn't have forced Exxon to separate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splitting Power at the Top | 5/28/2008 | See Source »

...arrested members were Samantha G.M. Barnard ’09, Robert J. Ross ’09, Amary K. Wiggin ’09, and Jacob P. Reitan, a Harvard Divinity School student who first conceived of the tour...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Harvard Students Arrested in Gay Rights Protest | 5/28/2008 | See Source »

...Senator Kennedy is a legend in Massachusetts. The brother of President John F. Kennedy ’40 and former Attorney General and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy ’48, Senator Kennedy comes from a storied pedigree that would dwarf the accomplishments of most individuals. Yet he has more than lived up to his family’s high expectations...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, Ari S. Ruben, and Daniel J. T. Schuker | Title: Honor Kennedy at Commencement | 5/28/2008 | See Source »

...Celebrity politicians have often had a hard time winning Senate popularity contests. West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, for example, wrested Ted Kennedy's No. 2 slot from him in 1971 in part because of Kennedy's fame. "Byrd shocked everyone by defeating Kennedy," said Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. "Why? Other Democratic senators saw Kennedy as a national figure who would use the Senate post as a platform for his own ambitions, while Byrd was viewed as a Senate-based persona who would spend his time and energies making senators' lives work well. Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Hillary Readjust to the Senate? | 5/27/2008 | See Source »

...original version of this article incorrectly reported that Robert Byrd became Senate Minority Leader in 1977. In fact, he became Senate Majority Leader that year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Hillary Readjust to the Senate? | 5/27/2008 | See Source »

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