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Still, Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, an organizer of the student-faculty petition that helped spur the University’s PetroChina divestment, said that “Harvard has already admitted the close nexus between oil revenue and the ongoing Sudanese genocide...
...Japanese riots erupted in China last month. Organized largely by technologically savvy young people, the protests reflect the intersection of cultural history, geopolitics, and international trade. Anger at textbooks sanitizing Japanese war crimes and at Tokyo’s campaign for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council spur violent looting that targets Japanese businesses and products...
...base through the lowest common denominator by telling conservatives that the opposition to the removal of the filibuster from Congressional rules is an attack on people of faith. According to those like Dr. Frist, questioning the impetus behind such a thinly veiled campaign of political opportunity driven by the spur of corruptive power is anti-faith, a convenient categorization that both rouses the roots of the right and silences dissent...
...stop this capital flight, García shut down Peru's banks after he became President. When he allowed them to reopen two days later, accounts containing U.S. dollars were frozen. In addition, he devalued the sol, the local currency, by 12% to stimulate exports and slashed interest rates to spur economic activity...
...billion trade surplus with the U.S. last year. Trying to curb that imbalance, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has moved in 1985 to modify regulations that block imports and has gone on national television to urge the Japanese people to buy foreign goods. Nakasone also hopes to spur imports by stimulating the Japanese economy. Last month the government unveiled a program to boost real estate development and ease restrictions on consumer loans...