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...He’s a heretic and if Harvard was still in the 17th century, he’d probably be burned at the stake,” said Alfred Alcorn ’64, an SCR member...
...follows similar moves last year by colleges and universities such as Stanford, Amherst, and Dartmouth. Harvard announced this past April that it would divest from PetroChina, a subsidiary of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), after pressure from students and some faculty members. But Harvard continues to hold a stake in a second Beijing-based oil company, Sinopec, which also does business in Sudan.PetroChina and Sinopec were both listed among the seven companies targeted by Yale’s divestment move yesterday. According to documents released by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, Harvard held 134,050 shares of Sinopec...
...Ellison writes in an email. “We might have changed in response to changes in the law, and it is possible that individual attitudes have changed, but I don’t think enforcement has changed independently.”Though HUPD’s stake-out means the alledged DeWolfe tokers may end up with a police record, if precedent proves anything, they’ll be walking with their class...
...dream or masturbate. In the face of everything around him—social norms, ugly girls, stupid people, law firms, hotel employees, self-righteous d-bags, the very limits of human existence—Max has striven to break through boundaries and has sought to stake a claim for himself as a human being you may try to go over but never around. Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue brings us the famous Athenian claim that “the strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must.” Max’s life...
...believe they will get there, but even if they do, it seems likely that for ACT to go mainstream, it will have to shed its icky zealotry and grandiose predictions. ("We could get Muslims and Jews together in a workshop," Hayes said in Washington. "Our survival really is at stake.") Even so, Hayes may be crazy enough to pull it all together...