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Now for the fill-in-the-blank portion of our test. Pencils ready? If Rich ard Nixon gives Leonid Brezhnev a Cadillac, then the Soviet leader should give the President a . Well, what? What socialist product evokes the Communist system the way a Cadillac does U.S. capitalism? A personal, hand...
OF ALL THE TRADITIONALLY finessed contradictions in the position of great private universities in America, none is greater than the stake in corporate capitalism by which they largely finance themselves. In this, of course, as in everything, Harvard leads the way, with an endowment twice as large as that of...
Gloria Emerson, the New York Times reporter who witnessed so much suffering in Vietnam, was walking through Holyoke Center a few weeks ago and ran into a crowd of Harvard students protesting the University's Gulf investment, chanting to the effect that "we must hold up the blood-stained banner...
THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY of divestiture points up Harvard's dilemma: there is no place today where $1.2 billion can hide from involvement in the transgressions of American capitalism and still generate a decent return to be spent on education. Many of those involved in the Gulf and similar campaigns will...
Obviously, American corporate capitalism does many good things, supporting this University among them. But it also does more bad things than those who benefit from it, including this University, have been willing to admit. The assumptions implicit in Harvard's dependence on corporate capitalism--without which it cannot survive-are...