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...Standard’s Oct. 4 story prompted Summers and Kagan to convene a three-member task force to investigate the plagiarism allegations against Tribe. One member, former University President Derek C. Bok, said yesterday that the task force met approximately a half dozen times last fall and issued a report to Summers and Kagan in December...
...role was simply as factfinder,” Bok said yesterday. He declined to comment further on the task force’s proceedings...
...nothing to help South African blacks. On the contrary, it might only transfer large blocks of corporate ownership from investors who are dedicated enemies of apartheid, and most responsive to a crusade against it, to others who would buy the divested stock for strictly financial reasons. Harvard President Derek Bok argues that advocates of stock divestiture are "counseling us to run from evil rather than work to overcome it." Harvard's policy is to use its $565 million worth of stock in companies that operate in South Africa as a lever to get them to observe the Sullivan principles...
...never bite the hand that quotes me,” Bok said...
...Typically, in such cases, the act of divestment is not taken with the expectation that it will induce a company to cease its objectionable operations,” the Corporation wrote, quoting a report by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. “Rather, to paraphrase President Bok, the University simply does not consider it proper to make investments in the enterprise in question...