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...fund the Janjaweed militias that are committing genocide in Darfur. This oil provides a clear and direct chain of causation between Harvard’s monetary interests and the most heinous of injustices and human rights abuses. Indeed, it would be difficult to justify the same link if the firm in question dealt with almost any other commodity besides...
Online social networking behemoth MySpace.com was sold for $580 million to News Corp. last year. MySpace received three times as many unique visitors in February as Facebook, according to market research firm comScore...
...chairman of the internet publishing firm Federated Media, John L. Battelle, wrote on his weblog: “Me? I’d take the $750 million.” But Battelle, who is the author of the book “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture,” said in a phone interview from his home in San Rafael, Calif., yesterday that some young Web entrepreneurs who turned down multimillion-dollar offers early on reaped rewards in the long...
...each assigned one of the possible locations, which they investigated and reported back to the group at a specific meeting. And yes, there were a few European destinations included in the early rounds that didn’t quite fit the criteria listed above. But once we had a firm cost-benefit analysis of the locations in place, we chose an all-inclusive resort in the Bahamas and we were ready to let loose, although our proposed escapades weren’t exactly like “Girls Gone Wild.”Even upon arriving...
...Harvard Medical School program is collaborating with the local government to construct a 350,000-square-foot medical research facility.The emirate occupied the center of national security debates in the United States after a company based there announced plans to take over management of six major U.S. ports. The firm later said it would turn over operation of the ports to a U.S. entity.At a meeting hosted by the Dubai School of Government, Summers said he was impressed by the emirate’s economic development strategies, according to AME Info, a website that covers business news about the Middle...