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What is to be done? I know that a call for divestment would elicit passionate responses, especially from those opposed to the very idea, and I am far from being even remotely equipped to argue the case in economic terms??I do not have the foggiest idea of how the stock market operates. Friends who know about these things tell me that a divestment would be very hard to implement: where does one draw the line? What about index funds and their multifarious investments? What about economic giants like G.E.? And since I am invoking the authority...
...tool, called “SpamAssassin,” screens incoming e-mails for specific terms??such as “click here” and “pennies a day”—identified as common in unsolicited commercial messages. If the message has enough flagged terms, it is labeled as spam and can be redirected into a separate folder for users to weed through at their pleasure...
...this week’s letter, Harvard’s lead negotiator said that the City Council’s terms??which essentially doubled the cost of Harvard’s final offer—were infeasible...
...thesis, which deals with the Khmer Rouge genocide. “I’m writing about how genocide in the Cambodian context is kind of like a religion,” she says. “I’m defining religion according to Durkheim’s terms??it’s a kind of belief and ritual.” She continues, “I’m really interested in human capabilities, which is why I’m interested in poetry, music, stuff like that. Genocide is just another one of those...
...resolution. Many of the countries that voted for the resolution, Russia and France for example, did not and still do not want regime change in Iraq if that means war. They voted for the resolution because to do otherwise would likely have brought war immediately on U.S. terms??and with it the end of their hopes for oil concessions (France) and repayment of Iraqi debts (Russia). The multilateralist crowd hasn’t been able to resolve the paradox that it took a credible threat of U.S. unilateralism to create the new U.N. framework...