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...respond," Jobs declared. "Maybe they want to parade me naked through the square." His way of responding was to call a press conference at his spacious but spare home in Woodside, Calif. Dressed in faded blue jeans, a wool sweater and tennis shoes (no socks), Jobs called the lawsuit "absurd" and insisted that he never intended to steal any of his old firm's proprietary technology...
Although demand for blood in the Northeast has dropped from last week's crisis levels, Marie Cloutier Dislo '83 of the local Red Cross said that demand remains high. "Too many people are still afraid that you can get AIDS from donating blood, which is absurd," Dislo said...
...private session with journalists last week, French President Francois Mitterrand described it as "criminal and absurd . . . and stupid." Indeed, whoever blew up and sank the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace environmental organization, in New Zealand's Auckland harbor last July did not do France or its President any favor. As the usually pro-Mitterrand Paris daily Le Monde and other papers zeroed in on the culpability of the government in the mysterious act of sabotage, the President could no longer remain aloof from what was rapidly becoming one of France's worst political crises in the four years since...
...FEAR BOK might have is that if divestment does not have the effect of persuading companies to pull out of South Africa, then Harvard would be making an absurd, extremist gesture calculated to purify ourselves but do nothing...
...course, compared to Harvard's ineffective practical stand right now, moral effectiveness and purity might be a welcome change. It will cause people to stop, think and take the South Africa situation more seriously. As it is right now Harvard is engaged in its own absurd mini-diplomacy with companies concerning the Sullivan principles. And how seriously do congressmen take Bok when he lobbies for limited sanctions against South Africa while his University does the least it can about apartheid...