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...goes into effect and no longer allows brokers to vote shares if they haven't received specific instructions from the shareholder on how to vote those shares. In the past, Fenn says, brokers were allowed to use their own discretion to vote shares and "typically voted management's slate" of directors...
...choice for producers with an eye on Oscar gold - There Will Be Blood and Juno in 2007, Slumdog Millionaire and The Wrestler in 2008 - and Precious now has the buzz of a sure-fire Oscar nominee, particularly given the Academy's decision this year to expand the Best Picture slate to 10 titles. The rollout of Precious seems to be following the familiar playbook: gaining momentum at three key festivals (Sundance, Cannes and Toronto) and looking to convert critical support into public intrigue and attendance when the movie hits theaters in November. (Read about why the Academy needs 10 nominees...
...However, while we endorse these changes in policy as a step in the right direction toward providing suspected enemy combatants their legal rights as dictated by the Geneva Conventions, we see the current slate of measures as insufficient and hope that they presage more actions in the near future. Much remains to be done to see that all those detained by the United States are provided with due process...
...team looking to find its stride after a difficult opening weekend, the ideal schedule would be a slate of easy contests to build up confidence. Unfortunately for Harvard men’s water polo, the squad doesn’t have that luxury.The Crimson (0-3) will travel to Denunzio Pool in Princeton, N.J. this weekend hoping to establish itself at the Princeton Invitational after three straight losses to open the season.But Harvard will have a tremendously talented field—including five teams in the Collegiate Water Polo Association preseason top 20—standing...
...Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy announced its slate of fall fellows earlier this week—a group of two journalists and two academics who will stay at Harvard to research issues confronting the modern press. The Shorenstein fellowship program, now in its twenty-fourth year, funds a semester-long term for experts in news media. Fellows are selected by a committee of the Shorenstein Center’s senior staff and Kennedy School faculty. This year’s fellows are John G. Geer, a Vanderbilt professor...