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Article

15 Feb 2006

Author:
[opinion] Chad Hazlett and Rebecca Hamilton, Harvard students, in Boston Globe

Harvard backslides on divestment

In April last year, Harvard University was widely applauded for divesting its $4.4 million holdings in the oil company PetroChina on the grounds that it did not want Harvard funds to support the genocide in Darfur. Today, the Harvard Corporation holds over $7 million in shares of another oil company equally complicit in the atrocities -- Sinopec.