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...University for continuing to invest in companies that implicitly supported a morally reprehensible regime. Students marched, held rallies, and even constructed a replica shantytown in protest.Despite all the pressure, Bok continued to argue against divestment. In one of his infamous open letters, Bok wrote that “blanket divestment” was a dubious policy in which the University would “deviate from its proper role, jeopardize its independence, and risk its resources with no realistic prospect of success.” However, Bok simultaneously allocated a million dollars for black South Africans to study at Harvard...
...signatory to that petition, I think none of us expected Harvard to divest from companies doing business in Israel. The petition represented the loosest kind of divestment demand: a blanket statement of general responsibility and a request to take a strong but vague moral stance. Historically, Harvard does not meet demands of this sort...
...wireless to feed their e-mail addicitions on the way back to their dorms from Lamont. By the summer of 2006, even scholars sans Blackberry can reach the Secure CRT nirvana of perpetual e-mail checking. Harvardians, MITechies—nay, all Cantabrigians—shall rejoice: a wireless blanket will descend on Cambridge. As a result of collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and the City of Cambridge, students and citizens alike will be able to reap the benefits of free wireless Internet access throughout the entire city. Harvard and MIT have aided Cambridge...
...Unlike Republican colleagues Orrin Hatch of Utah or John Cornyn of Texas, Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania didn't easily accept that rationale. He expressed his skepticism early on, telling Gonzales that federal law has a "forceful and blanket prohibition against any electronic surveillance without a court order"; he even suggested that the program's legality should be reviewed by a special court. Specter did come to Gonzales' aid early on, when Democrats on the committee ate up twenty minutes with a doomed procedural vote to force Gonzales to testify under oath, a gesture Specter thought was unnecessary...
...self-perpetuating momentum that will be hard to stop. It has escalated rapidly in the last few days, with imams around the world fanning anger in last Friday's mosque sermons, and mobs in Damascus and Beirut attacking embassies over the weekend. Muslim television and newspapers have provided blanket coverage, bloggers have stoked outrage on the Internet and more governments and Islamic groups have declared support boycotts...