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...City last week they got more, much more, than they anticipated. After 17 months of stalking an international drug ring in the U.S., Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong, they were expecting to turn up about 50 lbs. of heroin in the raid. But hidden inside a stack of small rubber tires was an astonishing 820 lbs. of the narcotic, with an estimated street value of nearly $1 billion. It was the biggest heroin bust ever in the U.S. Some 40 people, including the ring's suspected kingpin, Kok Leung Woo, 71, were arrested in New York and more than half...
Specifically, H/RAAA activists hoped that the Board could vote to force Harvard's seven-member Corporation, which decides University financial policy, to divest completely from South Africa. But even after winning three seats, H/RAAA activists were unsuccessful in securing such a vote by the Overseers, who traditionally rubber-stamp all Corporation decisions...
...just from Congressmen's crankiness over fumbling their pay raise. Capitol Hill does not want to take the rap for the irreconcilable differences between what Bush is promising in his budget and what the Treasury will allow him to do. Nor is the Senate Armed Services Committee going to rubber-stamp the nomination of former Senator John Tower as Secretary of Defense...
...seven-member Corporation meets every two weeks in secret to make the ultimate decisions on matters of University policy, from investment choices to academic appointments. The 30-member Board of Overseers, elected by alumni, advises the Corporation and has historically rubber-stamped Corporation decisions...
...Overseers should be independent enough to oversee, and not merely rubber-stamp, the actions of the Corporation," says Wood, who was elected on a pro-divestment slate in 1987. Wood also says the Board should allow its members to publicly discuss Harvard-related issues...