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...power plant in Dahbol, India and the Indian government objected, Rubin interceded to help push the deal through. According to Human Rights Watch, the plant encountered such powerful opposition from the local population that Enron had to pay the local police to control protestors. Now, thanks in part to Rubin??€™s intervention, the plant is the largest in India...
...Rubin??€™s and Winokur’s entanglements with Enron are symptomatic of more fundamental problems in the Harvard Corporation. Rubin represents the same corporate interests as the elites he is joining. He stands for the same logic behind Harvard’s heavy-handed expansion into Allston and its exploitation of the workers that sustain our community. Harvard is primarily an educational and research institution, and yet the people who govern it—with the exception of former University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray—can hardly claim to be qualified as academics...
...Rubin??€™s appointment does nothing to fill that void, and neither does it address the larger homogeneity that continues to plague the Corporation. Membership has been and continues to be associated with membership in the privileged elite of this country. Such privilege is intricately tied to racial, gender and class inequalities. It’s not surprising, then, that the Corporation has included only one person of color and two female members in its entire history. For Harvard to replicate this skewed system of power in its governance—despite its claims to promote diversity on campus?...
...Rubin??€”who was confirmed last Sunday as the newest member of the Harvard Corporation—was introduced by his long-time colleague University President Lawrence H. Summers, who praised Rubin??€™s work for the government...
...Rubin??€™s address soon moved on to more weighty matters...