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Speaking on condition of anonymity, the former HSA board member said the continued expansion of the publishing division's sales and advertising base was in danger of violatingthe student group's not-for-profit charter...
...charter, written when the agency wasfounded in 1957, states that HSA should serve theHarvard community...
...Essays, which has never been published as a book but, in photocopied form, is radically changing the curriculums of school systems all over the country. Written by an undistinguished group of scholars, these essays on history, social studies, math, language and arts and science are meant to be a charter of Afrocentrist history for young black Americans. They have had little scrutiny in the mainstream press. But they are popular with bureaucrats like Thomas Sobol, the education commissioner in New York State -- people who are scared of alienating black voters or can't stand up to thugs like City College...
Much of the problem is an elaborate and entrenched system of patronage based on accommodating the national pride of member states. The U.N. Charter calls only for "geographical balance" in filling various positions, but members have come to expect, and protect, their slots. The U.S. is as much an offender as any. The White House personnel office seizes on U.N. assignments at every level for political payoffs...
Because of the ever increasing importance of economic issues, pressure is building to give Germany and Japan permanent places on the Security Council, but without the power of the veto that the "perm five" possess. Opponents of that idea fear that revising the Charter would lift the lid of Pandora's box: the Third World would demand its own place on the Security Council in the form of seats for three regional powers -- India, Brazil and Nigeria. Otherwise, power in the council would be weighted against the poorer nations of the world...