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...This is the first time there has been a major disaster when this type of service has been widely available," says Yéle Haiti executive director Hugh Locke, whose nonprofit will use the funds to send nutrition bars, candles, hand-cranked flashlights and blankets to Haiti on two FedEx planes this Friday. "People want a sense of participating in the response. There is an emotional need to do something," he adds...
...interviews with The Crimson last year, Steven M. Rose, a former HMC tax director, questioned whether a non-profit such as Harvard ought to be utilizing investment vehicles such as offshore companies to boost financial returns. Rose also said that during the time of his employment at Harvard in 2001, HMC operated with a profit-driven mentality that he considered at odds with the University's educational mission...
...earlier version of the Jan. 13 news article "IRS To Audit Harvard as Part of Non-Profit Probe" stated that Steven M. Rose, former tax director of Harvard Management Company, raised questions last year regarding HMC's investment practices and "profit-driven mentality." To clarify, Rose voiced such concerns to a Crimson reporter last year, but the concerns focused on HMC's practices at the time of his employment in 2001. University spokesman John D. Longbrake's statement has been added to further clarify the timing of Rose's concerns and the University's response...
...from human-rights activists and some members of Congress that the company was turning a blind eye to its "Don't be evil" motto for the sake of access to the lucrative Chinese market. "Google came into the market bending some of its own rules," says Mark Natkin, managing director of Marbridge Consulting in Beijing. "It was intoxicated with the prospect of this enormous and still just-beginning-to-develop market. I think it always knew it was already having a little bit of misgiving about being in the market, but it couldn't pass...
...long-standing election trouble spots, such as the autonomous region for Muslims on Mindanao Island and a clutch of clannish northern provinces. "Based on our estimates there are at least 200 private armed groups nationwide if you include those run by landlords, businessmen and gambling lords," says Rommel Banlaoi, director of the Philippine Institute for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. Many are small units with under a dozen members. But some - it is not clear how many - are virtual armies. The one operated by the Ampatuan clan blamed for the November massacre seems to have been the size...