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...West. The project, argued BankTrack, violates the Equator Principles in key areas, notably in regard to protection of indigenous peoples. BankTrack suggested the Turkish government might use the new pipeline as an excuse to crack down on ethnic Kurds living along its route. Banca Intesa withdrew from the project last December, but both Citigroup and ABN Amro rejected BankTrack's criticisms and stayed on. "BTC is a complex and challenging transaction, but we felt on balance that it did meet the Equator Principles," says Richard Burrett, ABN Amro's managing director for sustainable development...
...withdrew from the Ivy Council several years ago, citing similar complaints of inactivity, but decided to rejoin last spring after members of the Ivy Council Executive Board spoke...
...lecture has been cancelled twice in the past two years. Nobel laureate John M. Coetzee, originally the speaker for last spring, cancelled due to personal reasons. Two years ago, the department withdrew an invitation to Tom Paulin after the poet’s alleged anti-Israel comments provoked controversy on campus...
...fact that some parents are bullies shouldn't cloud the issue of what decent parents might reasonably expect of teachers. Dissatisfied with the local primary school, Sydney mother-of-three Rachael withdrew her eldest daughter, now 10, and enrolled her in a private school. Her daughter's very bright, Rachael explains - with an IQ in the top 1% - but has a condition that interferes with her reading. So Rachael makes a point of meeting her daughter's teacher at the start of each year and regularly thereafter. "I make sure they've got all the literature...
...writings from Kumin’s “Pobiz” period reflect a keen awareness of the natural world that have led her work frequently to be compared to that of Robert Frost, who likewise studied here. (Frost, who enrolled at Harvard in 1897, withdrew from the College before ever receiving...