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...Nanjing Massacre to an "incident." China immediately labeled the book "poison" and summoned Japan's envoy to Beijing for a dressing down, while a text-message campaign urged Chinese to boycott Japanese goods. One of China's largest supermarket chains, Nonggongshang, said its 1,200 stores would no longer stock products from Japanese companies whose top brass are associated with a group sympathetic to the new textbook. Meanwhile, Seoul?where people were already angry that a Japanese prefecture recently claimed a remote rocky islet as its own, even though the Korean coast guard has been patrolling it for 57 years...
Kennedy School of Government (KSG) fellow Marshall N. Carter was elected to serve as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) board of directors Thursday, taking the helm of an 11-member body charged with regulating the world’s largest stock exchange...
Market experts say Carter will also have to deal with pressures to modernize the NYSE and transform it into a more competitive market. Some investors have criticized the NYSE for being the last major stock exchange to still rely on human trading in addition to computers...
...still feel that some human intervention, especially when turbulence occurs in the market...is necessary to prevent wild swings in the stock price,” Carter said. “But we think that a lot of the top few hundred shares can be done electronically...
...spirit of scrutiny—as evidenced by its decision to recommend divestment from PetroChina—and trust the Corporation, and the HMC, to police themselves. Lines have to be drawn. Ultimately, the benefits of ridding Harvard of a few more million dollars of questionable stock pale in comparison to the importance of the health of Harvard’s investments. Harvard has set a strong precedent for divesting from exceptionally bad companies. More student interference at this point will likely do more harm than good...