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...University was slow to pull its own investments out of companies doing business in South Africa, insisting that through its proxy votes, it could more effectively fight apartheid than by purging stocks from its portfolio. But after a decade of protests, Harvard did adopt a policy of selective divestment, and by the end of the '80s was almost completely out of South Africa...
...result of the council's decision to adopt the petition's recommendations, all future construction between Harvard and Central Squares--with Dana Street and Bay Square as endpoints--must not exceed 45 feet, or four stories. The previous height limit was 120 feet...
...July 27 meeting, council members, with only Michael A. Sullivan dissenting, voted to adopt many of the recommendations in the Anderson Petition...
While the main goals of the Anderson petition have now been achieved, city council members did not adopt its recommendations regarding affordable housing policies...
...same time lifting themselves out of Third World status. Their discipline and pragmatism will raise the standard of living for all Chinese; liberty as we know it will come later, and it can wait. Eventually the Chinese will throw off the old trappings of Stalinist and Maoist philosophy and adopt a culture that balances the privileges of liberty with the responsibilities thereof. Surely the next hundred years will be called "the Chinese Century." MARC NEVILLE Harrisburg...