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...since Corporation member Conrad K. Harper issued the same demand last summer.The former dean, Peter T. Ellison, said the reason he left his administrative position last spring was because he could not work alongside Summers. And he said the character of the president’s leadership may better suit Washington, where Summers served as Treasury secretary.“Maybe this is the way secretaries of the Treasury treat people to whom they have delegated authority, but it’s not the way a University like this has or should operate,” Ellison said yesterday.The former...
...University, which paid $26.5 million to settle the lawsuit. But in a brief letter dated Feb. 14, Vice President and General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano ’83 says the article does not make clear that Summers recused himself from the University’s decisions about the suit “from the outset of his presidency at Harvard.” The letter also says Summers did not participate in “judgements regarding whether, when or how Harvard should review the conduct of employees involved in the HIID project.” Shleifer...
...divestment decisions, however, hinge on their place in a broader debate. Powerful as it is, Harvard alone cannot bring down the militias, or apartheid, or the tobacco industry. Harvard’s decisions have to fit within a broader movement. On apartheid, Gulf oil, and tobacco, other investors followed suit, and Harvard’s move carried large public weight. So far, Harvard’s divestment from Sudan has been largely neglected externally, and progress on Darfur has been slow. But at least as far as PetroChina is concerned, Harvard has done what it can, and we must...
...Chicago?s Lawndale neighborhood, was charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against two boys from his parish, including one who was allegedly molested after the first accusations against McCormack surfaced last August. The case has shamed the archdiocese, which was hit with a $10 million suit last Friday, and Cardinal Francis George, who admitted in a rare mea culpa that he had failed to act quickly in removing the accused priest...
...They blew it," said Jeff Anderson, a St. Paul, Minnesota attorney who has brought a suit against the archdiocese in the McCormack case. (Lawyers for the Archdiocese couldn't be reached for comment about the lawsuit.) "The fact is that the archdiocese has had a long time to deal with this issue, and here the Cardinal and Bishops are not doing the right thing. This isn?t [just] about the victims anymore. This is about them breaking promises...