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Nearly twenty states have already passed legislation divesting their state pension plans of any foreign company that invests more than 20 million dollars a year in Iran (there are 19 such companies). Scores of municipalities and labor unions are beginning to follow suit. Given today’s economic climate, it is financially prudent for Harvard to divest its holdings from companies that could soon be the target of American and international sanctions...

Author: By DARRELL J. BENNETT Jr. and ALEXANDER CHESTER | Title: Time to Explore Iran Divestment | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...should be inspired by the students at Morehouse to follow suit here at Harvard. The Harvard Corporation has acquiesced to student pressure to divest in the past. In 1989, a campaign of three students ultimately led Harvard to divest from tobacco companies. In 2005, Harvard became the first university in the country to divest from Sudan, choosing to sell its holdings in PetroChina after two undergraduate students started an online divestment petition...

Author: By DARRELL J. BENNETT Jr. and ALEXANDER CHESTER | Title: Time to Explore Iran Divestment | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...suit, which was filed in 2008, is only the second claim against an alleged file sharer that has gone to trial and has not been settled out of the courtroom...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Court Strikes Fair Use Claim | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...park in downtown Kampala, and all along the benches, Ugandan office workers took their siestas. There could have been no less likely setting for criminal conspiracies to topple an East African state. Still, the doctor's voice dropped a notch when an office worker in a brown suit settled in close by. The medic shifted a battered fedora over his eyes. "I am the gay doctor," the physician whispered to me, making sure nobody around heard. He talked about the gay and lesbian couples who go to his office to avoid ridicule in public hospitals. "They know they can trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill: Inspired by the U.S. | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...recent filing of a wrongful-death civil suit to a district court in Florida, Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Professor Harold J. Bursztajn stated that CNN reporter Nancy Grace may have contributed to the suicide of Melinda Duckett, the mother of a 2-year-old who went missing...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Prof. Says TV Host Influenced Suicide | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

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