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...that we at least partially condone the apartheid system. If we divest, we will not, as the so-called pragmatists will undoubtedly charge, be engaging in mere moral handwashing. We will be taking an honorable stance in the face of what is a clear and irremediable evil. When events careen out of control as they have, divestment is both the most and the least Harvard...
Incredibly, it is beginning to look as if he might. Five years ago, lacocca was president of Ford Motor Co., and Chrysler's profits were about to careen off a cliff. In November 1978, four months after he got the ax at Ford, lacocca joined Chrysler as president. From that year through 1981, the company lost nearly $3.5 billion, easily the biggest bloodbath by any American company in history. In 1979, the company was so close to bankruptcy that only an act of Congress saved it, and despite the bailout, Chrysler has almost collapsed several times since. It is therefore...
After watching the Eagle careen around its mile-long track, I was definitely not psyched. So I decided on a plan for working my way up to the Mt. Everest of roller coasters--I would ride the park's lesser ones first. The name of the tiniest one should have been enough to turn me away. "Willard's Whizzer" whirled like the spin-dry cycle of a washing machine, and anything that goes in circles makes me sick. I rode it anyway...
...ways: he devises aural effects for films, and he carries himself with an air of unassuming rectitude. One night, while on a field trip to tape the whistling wind for a horror movie, he hears the air punctured by the explosion of an automobile tire and sees a car careen through a bridge railing and into the water below. The car contains a presidential hopeful and his lady of the evening, Sally (Nancy Allen). Jack dives in and saves her, but is later warned by police and friends of the deceased politician to forget that she existed. The plot thickens...
...Rush keeps the show moving busily forward, accompanied by a giddy, carnival-like ragtime score; we don't have time to puzzle the enigmas that teem in such overabundance, but at the same time we never have time to pin down the petty annoyances. Rush's eclectic style can careen between screwball frolic and murky psychodrama with the naive self-assurance of a precocious school boy. Like his stunt man protagonist, he stumbles again and again; but each time he falls flat he bounces up grinning to rush off for more...