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...that Harvard's investment decisions are divorced from moral considerations: President Bok's conflicting remark that the Corporation had already "decided what is right" by not divesting and Treasurer George Putnam '49's laughter upon hearing of the last have all been publicized, thereby calling attention to the often callous attitude of the Corporation toward students...
...divestiture fasters. This risk relates to the possible loss of profits from lucrative investments in South Africa. The Harvard administration also risks the loss of friends among the American power elites who, through either outright sympathy with South Africa's fascist and racist ways or just plain callous indifference, will sever connections with a Harvard that risks some of its wealth in order to save its soul. We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callously that it is incapable of matching the moral threat of divestiture fasters. Rita Breen. Executive Officer Committee...
...these gains have cost us dearly in economic hardship. A market that takes ten years of slow economic collapse to reduce demand in response to a rise in prices cannot be called "free." It would be callous and foolish for us to ignore the gross imperfections in the oil market, and make the US government play OPEC just to make us less vulnerable to the real OPEC...
NIGERIA'S ACTIONS, as callous as they are, pale in comparison with those of Ghana's military ruler. Flight Lieut. Jerry "J.J." Rawlings. Last New Year's Eve, Rawlings and a band of disgruntled army officers shot their way to power and quickly imposed a reign of terror on Ghana. Editors of major Ghanaian newspapers were herded to an army barracks and told that "objectivity" and "neutrality" in reporting were relics of the past: "You are either for or against the revolution...
...farewell messages which annually fill this space, many of my predecessors have gotten the same subject out of context. They have erred toward excessive disdain, describing a Harvard that transformed classmates into sniveling pre-professional sycophants, traumatized by callous bureaucrats, elitist professors and pitiless academic advisors. Naturally, then, the beleaguered undergraduate wretches lack the heart for political commitment...