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Read The Crimson's initial report on Harvard's PetroChina ties: Endowment Tied to Sudan; University bought stock in oil firm that activists say helped fuel genocide...
...campaign targeting the nine e-voting-machine makers "helped to drive Diebold stock down by more than 30%" and "caused numerous investigations of Diebold and other companies." In fact, no one has been charged as a result of Kimberlin's hell-raising. Yvonne Varano, who analyzes Diebold for investment firm Jefferies & Co. Inc., says the blogosphere's war on the company "has had a minimal effect" on its stock price. Diebold is under formal investigation by the SEC, whose spokesman declined to comment, but Varano said the inquiry is focused on accounting practices. Notably, no one has yet successfully claimed...
...Rabe, Verizon's senior vice president for media relations. "Do you really want your government handling your e-mail?" Public outrage caused the telco fight to fizzle, with many bills getting killed or modified. City wireless is set to become a $1.2 billion market by 2010, according to analyst firm ABI Research; AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Nextel spin-off Embarq are looking to cash in, snapping up their own municipal deals in places like Springfield, Ill., and Riverside, Calif. And Comcast Ventures has invested in BelAir Networks, a Canadian vendor of wireless equipment...
...Hoffman, a partner with the New York-based firm Outten & Golden, said there is more at stake in this case than the denial of Bailey for a full time position. Hoffman filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claiming that the use of credit scores to determine employment eligibility is discriminatory against minorities because minorities are more likely to have credit problems...
...fill Negroponte's job, President Bush today named former Navy Adm. Mike McConnell, now a senior executive at the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, whose previous billets included heading the National Security Agency. McConnell had declined to step in as Negroponte's deputy when Michael Hayden left that job eight months ago to become the new CIA Director. McConnell is an affable, respected national security hand originally from South Carolina. It remains to be seen whether he'll fare better than Negroponte. It also remains to be seen whether McConnell's work for Booz Allen Hamilton, where...