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Beyond Harvard, there are other ways to act to bring change. Consider the ethics of the firm you may work for after graduation. Is it a company with values like Exxon's or Union Carbide's? Does it finance "development" projects that lead to destruction of native cultures and rainforests? Does it exploit laborers such as native American migrant farm workers? By making far-sighted choices about who we work for and how we live, we can help to bring about the changes which must by made if we are to move beyond this time of crisis and create...
...denying the Medicaid funds, he was making abortion in those cases an alternative only for women who can afford it. But if he made federal funds available for the poor, he risked alienating his right-to-life constituency. Bush said he did not want to "compound a violent act with the taking of an unborn life" but acknowledged that "to some there might be a contradiction there." Democrats attacked the decision, but so did Republicans. Said Republican Senator Bob Packwood: "We are on the wrong side on the issue...
...city of refugees. More than 100,000 had fled, and 250,000 remained, encamped in parks and fields. Rich and poor alike stood in line at improvised soup kitchens and mess halls. Policemen, soldiers and armed citizens proved all too eager to act on Mayor Eugene Schmitz's order to shoot looters. A few miscreants were killed, and ordinary citizens were forced at gunpoint to work in the cleanup. America and most of the civilized world mourned what ranks as one of the greatest calamities suffered by a U.S. city. In the New York Sun, Will Irwin wrote a eulogy...
Since it has produced a meat-cleaver approach to budget cutting, the Gramm- Rudman mechanism has itself become a target. Senator Ernest Hollings, one of the authors of the legislation, announced last week that he was ready for a "divorce" from the act. During Senate hearings on reforming the budget process, Budget Committee chairman Jim Sasser of Tennessee said, "Gramm- Rudman is teetering on the verge of becoming more a part of the problem than a part of the solution." Sasser says the law has the Government keeping two sets of books: one devised to meet Gramm-Rudman, "which...
After the officer placed his hat over the photographer's lens, the Crimson editor asked if he was familiar with the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, a law which bars anyone from intimidating people in an effort to keep them from exercising their rights under the Constitution or other laws...