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...itinerant parfaits preached stirring sermons (there was hardly a book in town, and only four of its more than 200 people could read). Conversions came quickly. Unlike the parfaits, ordinary believers did not need to abstain from mutton and love; they had only to receive a deathbed absolution. At that point, they were expected to embark on the endura, a suicidal fast that sped them to heaven. A fellow traveler like Parish Priest Pierre Clergue could turn the Cathar teachings upside down: "Since everything is forbidden, everything is allowed." Clergue was rare in his rapacity, but not in taking concubines...
Gardiner decided yesterday to abstain on a shareholder resolution in Eastman Kodak that would end sales of the company's photographic equipment to the government of South Africa, because "I was not well informed enough about it to vote...
...this year, is designed to deal with ethical questions related to Harvard's investments. Yet when the ACSR voted overwhelmingly last week to support shareholder resolutions calling upon Motorola and 3M corporations to discontinue their South African operations, Hugh Calkins, acting on behalf of the Corporation, decided instead to abstain. This action made a mockery of their protestations of reliance on the ACSR--itself hardly a representative body. Unless the Corporation itself intends to review every company, it must either respect the ACSR's recommendations or establish another agency to consider these questions...
...South Africa, and may in fact never bring about such action. Although the report pledges Harvard to support shareholder resolutions in firms whose product lines directly support apartheid in South Africa, some recent Corporation decisions do not exactly fit into that category. After the Corporation voted this week to abstain on shareholder resolutions calling on Motorola and the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company to leave South Africa, students are not exactly holding their breaths for a swift change in Harvard's policy...
...wants to abstain from the usual undergraduate bacchanalia, a good way to start the penitence would be to converse--Friday night, April 7 at 8:45 p.m.--with Yosef Yerushalm, professor of Hebrew and Jewish History, at a Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Sabath Table Talk. The subject of discussion will be "Jewish Life in America and the East European Model...