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...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) recommended this week that the Harvard Corporation abstain from voting on shareholder resolutions that would force corporations to reveal whether they comply with the Arab nations' economic boycott of Israel...
Marla Miller '76, a Rotary Fellowship winner who had said Wednesday she would reject the award if Wick triumphed, said yesterday several professors and about 50 students had congratulated her for her stand. But she said no other Rotary winners had approached her to join the boycott...
...undersigned residents of North House, would like to protest The Crimson's distortion of the North House brunch boycott in support of Sherman Holcombe, suspended shop steward for the Radcliffe dining halls...
...Crimson's article gave many people the false impression that boycott supporters had somehow threatened or physically obstructed other North House students. It quoted one student as saying that they knew of students whose decision to boycott had not been made of their "own free will," and another as referring to "unpleasant pressures." Apparently The Crimson did not bother to ask how anyone's free will had been interfered with, or what these "pressures" consisted of beyond presenting arguments about why people should support Mr. Holcombe and the boycott...
Keenan says there has been no pressure on him to resign his overseeing commission. He adds, however, that friends of his in organizations like Amnesty International would prefer that no one work with Iran. He says that a boycott by himself "would be a hollow, ineffective and not necessarily morally brave option. Americans I think without being crusaders can bring moral pressure to bear in a way that maybe others won't be able to. But they will not be effective if they are simplistic." And, he adds, "If one were to accept Amnesty International's position for example, there...