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...opinion of Gordon D. Kaufman, Mallinckrodt Professor of Law and an ACSR member, is any indication, the other committee members will encores Stevens's plan. Because the ACSR had investigated a company only at the request of another shareholder, "last year's system left us in the position where we ended up voting yes or no on proposals that we felt should have different wording or different emphasis. We were simply in the position of reacting to other people's work," Kaufman says...
When Hansen, fellow co-captain Juan Enriquez and last year's captain Ethan Cruvant decided to tackle the University's bureaucratic maze, they had little hope that their request would succeed. But they made right contacts and wrote a solid proposal--the committee voted overwhelmingly to lift the club's status...
...faculty were also bewildered last spring by the committee's decision in late April not to consider Eugene D. Genovese, professor of history at Rochester University and a top-flight historian in the field of slavery, for its next appointment after Huggins. Committee members said that at Huggins' request, they had decided to make their next appointment in Afro-American literature...
...addition to its obligation to investigate any of the 50 companies in which Harvard invests at the request of an outside shareholder, the proposal would place an eight-company-per-year review on the ACSR's agenda...
...Well, I don't know," said Armand, looking at the pipe. "I did request a non-smoker. But I'm sure we'll get along. The place is roomy enough. Just one question: where do we sleep...