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...that responsible line. Three Nobel Peace Prize winners have asked UBS to tell its Chinese client to “halt its operations in Sudan or implement a rigorous corporate governance policy that would mitigate the impact of its operations on innocent civilians,” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, landmine campaigner Jody Williams, and Northern Ireland peace activist Betty Williams wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to the Times of London. The laureates added that if PetroChina/CNPC rejects these requests, UBS should withdraw from the stock offering...
...directly by visiting UBSPetition.org. There, you can sign a letter to UBS chairman Marcel Ospel stating that you will not apply for a job or internship at UBS until the investment bank cleans up its act in Sudan. Specifically, Ospel must comply with the reasonable recommendations set forth by Wiesel and his fellow Nobel laureates. Tell Ospel that as long as he chooses to profit from genocide, he won’t be able to profit from...
...Context of a Transforming Supreme Court,” is the last she is teaching here as her stint at Harvard ends. When the group reached the river, Verdi’s Requiem sounded from a portable stereo. Benshoof read several quotations, including one from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel that said, “The opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” After the reading, the group launched the coffin into the Charles River and then tried to burn pages from the majority opinion. After one student successfully lit a piece of paper...
...added. The Harvard Foundation Humanitarian award was inaugurated in 1984 as a way to recognize those individuals who commit themselves to improving humanity and advancing human rights. The first recipient was Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. He was followed by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel...
...long and passionately as an idea before descending to hard history. When Elie Wiesel's mind drifts to the Holy Land, his expressive face grows radiant. ''We live in biblical times,'' says Wiesel. ''Think of all that has been accomplished in 40 years.'' A national home for every Jew in the world, an ingathering from more than 100 countries -- although, of course, 9.3 million of the world's Jews remain in the Diaspora. The resurrection of a dormant language, Hebrew, for everyday use, a constantly renewed and invented tongue that has helped compose a functioning society, and democracy...