Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reluctant to address the self-sacrifice point made by Bok because it seems so absurd, but for the sake of tho roughness I want to state my conviction that the wizards who run the Harvard corporation could mastermind a divestment plan that would incur no financial loss to the University. Bok wonders why divestment is more forceful than the university's statements against apartheid. How much force is there in Harvard's expressed abhorrence of apartheid when in its financial dealings it is supporting the apartheid regime, which has promised never to eliminate the racial discrimination it stands for? Harvard...
After the meeting, Spence said it was too soon to say what would be done to address minority concerns. "It's really the first time I've had to meet with them. I would like to have a chance to think about what I heard," Spence said...
Look at President Bok's "open letter" on the issue. His arguments, the same arguments he has used for 10 years, are stale, unconvincing and thoroughly contradictory. He does not even take into account or attempt to address the points made in the ACSR report, or by the numerous members of the community who have expressed their reasons for advocating divestment. He ignores the fact that municipalities such as Cambridge. Boston and New York, states such as Massachusetts, and other institutions such as University of Michigan have declared that divestment is not only a prudent but an ethically necessary course...
...addition to lecturing this semester, two prominent Law School professors will address a national television audience in a weekly series on constitutional...
...Kennedy School Forum prior to the televised debate between Bush and Ferraro on Thursday night. This non-event termed a student "debate" between Harvard and Yale Democrats for Mondale-Ferraro and Harvard and Yale Republicans for Regan-Bush was a shameful performance. First, the student debaters failed to address the true issues of the campaign. Second, the audience was for some reason thrilled by the failure of either side to make substantive points. They cheered and hissed whenever a non-point was made, apparently to express their unreasoning support for the candidates. This gave the Forum a zoolike atmosphere...