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Although students and professors may find these investments unconscionable, the HMC will defend its holdings with companies active in Sudan and other terrorist-sponsoring states in three ways. First, they will claim that divesting will hurt financial returns for Harvard’s endowment, which will limit academic enrichment opportunities for the community. Next they may respond that Harvard’s endowment should not be used as a political tool. Or, as HMC president Jack Meyer told the Crimson last week, divesting from companies may hurt job prospects for Sudanese civilians...
...period, Harvard’s policy of minimizing its own liability would be almost amusing. It would be just another campy game of cat and mouse between a certain “Animal House” portion of the student body and a puritanical administration. No one would get hurt, there would be no downside and the controversy over the demon drink would have no bearing on the realities of student safety or wellbeing...
...helped propel Salazar to victory in two campaigns for attorney general, the first Hispanic to win statewide office in Colorado. Although in the end experts say it was Salazar's roots and his experience in public office that made the difference, his aura of underlying decency surely didn't hurt. Indeed, although he and brewery heir Coors criticized each other harshly at times, a recent Salazar ad began with the statement "I care about Colorado, and so does Pete Coors...
...affiliation--move into a runoff. Facing four Democrats in a crowded field, Vitter won outright, becoming the first Republican U.S. Senator from Louisiana since Reconstruction. A flap created late in the race when Vitter enclosed dollar bills in a mass mailing to potential voters did not seem to hurt...
...clear: stay on the President's good side. It's his party, and from fund raising to endorsements, a sitting President can do a lot to determine who the next G.O.P. nominee will be. So if Senator John McCain decides to run for President in 2008, it won't hurt that he and Bush have cooled the infamous ire that developed between them during the pungent 2000 primary season. Campaigning together frequently this fall, the former rivals became, if not bosom buddies, closer than either ever expected, according to friends of both. Bush was impressed that McCain never wavered...