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...1980s have been the decade for Harvard to adopt traditionally Californian sports. First men's and women's volleyball became varsity competitors, then men's water polo. This year, women's varsity water polo finally made the trip East...
While there is evidence that China is beginning to adopt some precepts of capitalism, let us not forget that in the past eight months, during China's "purification campaign," more than 2,000 Chinese Christians have been arrested and three have been executed. Inhumanity continues to be very much the way of life in the People's Republic of China...
...blaming its policies for causing riots last month that left more than 50 people dead. Leftists around the world accuse the IMF of trying to impose capitalist values, and Finance Ministers in developing countries frequently protest that it is interfering in internal politics by forcing them to adopt draconian economic measures...
...their statements over the last decade that they care about the South African question, and work--through stockholder resolutions and other tactics--to get those companies directly supporting the South African government to pull out from the country, and to push companies which do not directly propagate apartheid to adopt the Sullivan Principles as a bare minimum...
Scattered grass-roots attempts to aid black families also seem hopeful. In Los Angeles, Dr. James Mays, a black physician, has set up an adopt-a-family program: each of 200 enrolled families is being provided with legal, medical and other services by a volunteer group. Washington recently put 40 welfare mothers through an experimental eight-month job-training course; most found employment. Five years ago, South Boston High School started encouraging its student mothers not to drop out; a pediatric nurse spends two days a week at the school dispensing advice on bringing up babies...