Word: apartheid
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...Senior Class Gift. Since then, the endowment has accumulated more than $ 28,000 in contributions from graduating seniors and alumni. The money will be kept in escrow in an interest-bearing account until Harvard divests from companies with ties to South Africa or the United Nations declares that apartheid has ended...
Scondras is backed in the Overseers campaign by the Harvard Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid, a dissident slate of candidates seeking to force the University to divest its remaining holdings in South Africa...
...Leica and the sensitivity of a light meter. He focuses on a single day in the Transvaal town of Brits, where three men spend their separate, unequal lives. Ronald de la Rey, a white veterinarian, parrots the Boer tradition: "I think the idea of apartheid makes you more aware of the differences between people than the similarities. It's in our subconscious. But we like it that way. Everyone keeps their own identity...
...most personal of the books, it is in some ways the most powerful. But Malan's self-absorption obscures his extraordinary credentials. He is a relative of Daniel F. Malan, one of the architects of apartheid. Rian becomes the righteous recorder of black rage in the "charnel house" of Soweto, the largest black township created by that apartheid. Alas, the conflict of genealogy and emotion tends to produce more heat than light. In a typical episode, Malan recalls a psychopath who murdered whites with a hammer; Simon Mpungose's story "seemed to unfold like the story of a saint, deeply...
...Africa is capable of change. Thus far the evidence supports them. Only a few years ago, the government in Pretoria vowed to hold the racial line forever. Today it has come to recognize the inarguable truth that underlies all three books. George Bernard Shaw uttered it long ago, when apartheid was young: "Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupies the cells...