:: groupthink ::

:: Thursday, October 31, 2002 ::

hari --

are we the only people who post????
your pal.
amy
:: newsy 10:39 AM [+] ::
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the 6th annual arab american film festival is screening at three separate locations in the bay area over the next couple of weeks. some of the descriptions of the films look pretty interesting. might be an alternative to I-spy and Jackass.

:: h 10:16 PM [+] ::
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hari -- your blog hasn't quite taken off....what's wrong???
:: newsy 3:36 PM [+] ::
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Dubya, Harken and Harvard??
one always has to wonder about cross purposes for the war on terrorism. a simple reality is that it diverts media attention away from allegations of corporate malfeasance by the nation's CEO. back in the news are connections between Dubya, Harken energy and Harvard University. in a nutshell, according to a couple of articles i've read -
Bush used to run an oil company called spectrum 7 back when his dad was still vp. harken energy bought it, gave Dubya a seat on the board and paid him 100k + a year. as it ran into its own bad patches around 1990 when Bush 41 was in effect, an unlikely investor came in to take it off the ropes. Harvard University has a corporation- managed by seven members. they do what they want with the school's endowment of $18 billion (yes B- second only to the catholic church according to one piece). Harvard and Harken formed what was known as the Harken Anadarko Partnership- (named after some oil fields in Oklahoma). why the school with VE RI TAS for its motto u ask? well the person on the Harvard corporation's board most familiar with energy investments and so forth is a man by the name of Robert G. Stone. apparently hes an oil guy, and was a big supporter of Dubya's daddy back in the day. this partnership was funded in large part by Harvard but Harken managed it. so heres the tricky part- this gets into the land of off-the-book partnerships where essentially Harken transferred its losses to the HAP in an effort to come out smellin' better.
an organization called Harvardwatch has been continuing the digging. their primary purpose seems to be an effort to act as a watchdog on the Harvard Corporation. they put out a memo a couple of weeks ago which has been written about in the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. if you click the take action now link on their site, they have cut and paste all the above articles there, along with others. they also have an online petition you can sign to encourage SEC chairman Harvey Pitt to re-open the investigation into this whole affair. i was led to all this through a well written blog by Matt Bivens called the Failsafe Point.

stay informed,
stay awake.
just stay.


:: h 9:38 PM [+] ::
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cross-blogging- perhaps.. but its worth it.

recommendation for a thought-provoking good time:
one-man play i saw a couple of years ago is back for a short run.
now playing: history and mystery of the universe

:: h 2:38 PM [+] ::
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hmmmm....think, out loud????
:: newsy 11:06 AM [+] ::
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ola, all-
feel free
to
think and let think.
:: h 12:17 AM [+] ::
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