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...collective student transport to Logan airport. The council’s support of the program sparked e-mails condemning the use of UC funding for such a venture. The discontent caused Mather UC representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08—by means of an obscure constitutional rule of order—to ask for a retroactive amendment, which was not upheld, according to both Greenfield and Sundquist. —Staff writer Christian Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...federal filing, Harvard owned $15.7 million of the two companies as of the end of last year through mutual funds. If the original investment was enough to merit divestment, this surely is, so Harvard should drop this stock immediately.We disagree, however, with the idea of a strict, preemptive policy rule. Harvard has only divested a few times in its history, and for good reason. As Interim President Derek C. Bok pointed out in a 1979 open letter that continues to guide Harvard’s policy on divestment today, Harvard’s academic mission puts constraints on how extensively...
...issues exposed by this firestorm have less to do with elite institutions themselves than with the students who populate them, and, by extension, with the authority figures that judge their credentials. While it is tempting and reassuring to take Dell and Mylavarapu as exceptions to the rule, they are more likely its most conspicuous exemplars...
...Contrary to the grim predictions made about Hong Kong before the 1997 handover, the territory's economy and infrastructure have never been better, the rule of law remains paramount, business practices and regulations are transparent, and corruption is virtually nonexistent. Hong Kong is not a stand-alone sovereign democracy, but it has thrived precisely because of "one country, two systems." Hong Kong works...
That's not happening yet. Ahmadinejad complements Khamenei's leadership. As a noncleric, he is not a religious rival like Rafsanjani, and unlike the reformist Khatami, who challenged some of the Islamic republic's founding tenets, Ahmadinejad supports velayat-e faqih, or rule by the clergy. He refers to the Supreme Leader as agha, a title expressing extreme deference, and kissed Khamenei's hand at his presidential inauguration...