Word: shell
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...felt that a decent proportion of students would take advantage of it," Rollert added. "Especially for people from the Quad, or farther river houses, who now don't have to shell out money at the Greenhouse or in the Square...
Since the end of apartheid to the present, Harvard has continued its practice of investing in irresponsible multinational corporations. By the end of 1997, Harvard had over $34 million invested in Shell Oil--a world leader in environmental destruction and human rights abuses. Shell Oil's dubious relationship with the military government of Nigeria has led to the importation of arms and paying the military to suppress local civilian opposition, the execution of Nobel peace laureate Ken Saro-wiwa and eight others for speaking out against its oil drilling operations, and environmental destruction which has caused pollution levels in Nigeria...
...beneficiaries of the University's economic growth. President Mandela's visit should remind us, however, that as long as Harvard continues to invest in irresponsible companies such as Shell, the University cannot be wholy committed to its principles of individual freedom and opportunity. Responsible investment will give future students cause to be proud of Harvard's role in the global economy...
...need is a shell, a suit filled with straw, a marionette controlled by the vacillating tide of public opinion. Certainly there needs to be forgiveness for human failure. But there is a great difference between a lapse of judgment and the ongoing practice of deliberate, damaging behavior. Those who cannot control their own impulses should not be given the role of controlling nations. STAFFORD WILLIAMS Maudsland, Australia...
That, in a nut-shell, is exactly the problem plaguing the 10 Democrats running to replace Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II as the U.S. representative from Massachusetts' eighth congressional district...