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...Mahan ’05 and Brandon Terry ’05 could not be more true. The two former student organization presidents wrote the above denunciation in a Feb. 18 e-mail to the Class of 2005. In the e-mail, Mahan and Terry encouraged their peers to withhold their contributions to the Senior Gift, a traditional donation to the Harvard College Fund given by the graduating Senior Class, until Harvard agrees to divest from PetroChina. PetroChina’s parent company, an oil company almost wholly owned by the Chinese government, is participating in a joint venture with...
...effort urging students to withhold Senior Gift donations until Harvard University divests from PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil company with ties to the government in Sudan, is set to begin today...
...Asking students to withhold money is asking them to turn their backs on future Harvard students,” Vascellero said. “The purpose of the Senior Gift is not related to the endowment or PetroChina; the money goes toward financial aid and pressing needs of the University...
...vocal critic at the first event told Sharansky that he “represents a fundamentally anti-Democratic state” because it gives greater rights to Jews than to Palestinians. Audience members questioned whether the U.S. should withhold aid to Israel because of this...
...called command. Carson was not joke for joke the funniest man on TV, nor the best interviewer. He was simply the best host: he could flow with events instead of being carried off by them, yield the spotlight to guests while transcending any particular night's program, withhold even as he made us believe he was giving...