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Harvard is currently a member of the FLA, but student activists say the University should withdraw from the organization, which they say is too beholden to corporate interests, and join the fledgling...
...Medha Patkar, a young, largely self-taught activist, was appalled by the price: huge amounts of land swamped, half a million villagers displaced and a lush river basin ruined. Leading hunger strikes, enduring beatings and vowing to drown herself in a flooded area, she got the World Bank to withdraw support of the key Sardar Sarovar dam and scared off investors from a second major dam. But the Indian government persists with the project, and Patkar fights...
...quick way out might be for Elian to withdraw his own asylum request. After all, if his Miami relatives got him to sign the original request, it's unlikely to be difficult for his father to convince him of the merits of signing a document that would withdraw it. "If Elian personally withdraws his request, the case would collapse," says Cohen. "But a court might order that the boy be examined by a neutral third party, and if that examination found that he actually wanted to stay in the U.S., the issue would revert to a question of whether...
...some sense, UHS already recognizes the importance of insulating health funding from personal preferences--anti-abortion refunds are the only medical refunds offered to students. But we wonder why such an exception exists, and why this refund option is exceedingly easy to exercise. Students may withdraw whatever portion of their health service fee would have gone to subsidize an abortion by simply check-marking a specific...
However, this scheme came under fire from officials at several Boston universities, including Harvard. Their ire, coupled with the fact that Harvard owns the Allston warehouse that Kozmo operates out of, led Kozmo to recently withdraw its request for a liquor license. Instead of making a reasonable effort to compromise, the University inappropriately exerted its influence to squash private enterprise...