Word: apartheid
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Just as the subject of divestment from Sudan has consumed the Harvard campus in the past year, the University’s investments in companies with financial ties to the South African apartheid regime was the preeminent topic of debate on campus in the late 1970s...
...anti-apartheid movement grew on campus throughout the late 1970s, and its momentum increased due to the work of the Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC), an undergraduate organization formed in the fall...
...there not only to attract readers but also to symbolize that the once mighty "evil empire" eventually collapsed. May the Force stay with you. Arek Druzdzel Radom, Poland A Matter of Crime In your report on race relations in South Africa in the 10 years since the end of apartheid [April 25], you showed a photo of a gated compound where whites are living. But the attraction of secure communities has nothing to do with race and everything to do with keeping crime at bay. Gated residential compounds are not the exclusive domain of white South Africans. Blacks...
...journalism that the U.S. media need to adopt. They are far too deferential to U.S. politicians and let them get away with scripted and misleading answers. What a joy it would be to see Paxman grill President Bush and others in his Administration. Nigel Pond Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. After Apartheid your report on race relations in South Africa 10 years after the end of apartheid was quite balanced [April 25]. Naturally, racism and racial conflict cannot simply vanish after they have been the norm for so long a time. In any case, humans everywhere engage in conflict over natural diversity...
...rise was designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff when landscape buildings were fashionable. Vertical may be victorious, but horizontal is happier. Allan Bula Bexhill on Sea, England Lingering Racism Your article "a difficult lesson" described the racism that persists in South Africa 10 years after the end of apartheid [April 25]. I am an Italian, and I have lived in Durban, South Africa, on and off for four years. The first time was when apartheid was still dominant. The second time was when apartheid was on the verge of collapse. I have also visited the country on vacation...