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...proposal failed to receive a recommendation from Somerville’s Legislative Matters Committee last night, and will likely be voted down tomorrow by the full Board of Aldermen in favor of an alternate proposal...
...Many people don’t understand what our money is doing there to begin with, in foreign bonds that are linked to human rights violations,” said Ron Francis, an organizer for Somerville Divestment Project. The group presented a petition with over 1,100 signatures in favor of divestment to the board last month...
...sort of top notch facilities and social life consumers of higher education have come to expect—it is surely mistaken. The College’s future is by no means certain, and the laws of demand and supply will not remain in Harvard’s favor forever...
...find this reminder on the ease of selling out—even in this small way—heartening or discouraging. It suggests, I think, that the other kinds of selling out we have dreaded—getting a corporate job, abandoning our elliptical late-night conversations in favor of more adult modes of communication, making enough money to eat something other than Easy Mac, buckling down and growing up in general—may be both less painful and less noticeable than we had anticipated. Selling out may, it seems, produce nothing more than a brief shock of unpleasantness...
...doing whatever it takes to restore their relationship with Washington and pursuing a new diplomatic solution, Barghouti advocates a two-state solution but proclaims armed struggle and the intifadah, rather than simply seeking the good offices of the U.S. (which the Palestinians have viewed as hopelessly biased in favor of Israel, even under the Clinton administration), as the more effective and reliable leverage available to the Palestinians...