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...sustain a small financial loss in order to send a powerful message of condemnation to Pretoria, many of the bill's sponsors are hopeful that divestment will not cost the state a dime. The Massachusetts Coalition for Divestment from South Africa--a coalition of more than 100 religious, civic and labor organizations that promoted the bill--has calculated that the state may even be able to make several million dollars in the process of divestiture. This prediction is probably overly optimistic. But by judiciously spreading the required sales over the three-year period allotted by the bill, the state...
Originally introduced in 1979 by Rep Mel King (I-Boston) and State Sen. Jack Backman (1)-Brookline Newton) the bill has been promoted by the Massachusetts Coalition for Divestment from South Africa (MassDivest) a coalition of over 100 labor, civic and religious organization. Two Harvard student groups, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the Hillel Social Action Committee are among the group's members...
...historiographical school which catalogues the New Left as merely the peak of some relentless sine curve on a cycle of generational conflict or reformist sentiment. The authors emphasize the restraints on radicalism in America, invoking historian Louis Hartz's conception of a culture which assumes liberalism as a civic religion from the outset. Struggling against the strong currents of moderation, the New Left formulated a coherent criticism of the very premises of the nation's liberal tradition; it thus attracted a massive following of skeptics where earlier 20th century movements on the Left never got beyond sectarian battles over...
...Allston-Brighton Civic Association, an organization of residents from the area surrounding the Stadium, led local opposition to professional football at Harvard. Citizens warmed that USFL games would produce unmanageable traffic jams and attract unwelcome visitors to their neighborhoods, Schmidt said...
...Social Work Richard Estes turned up with an index to the "quality of life" in 107 nations. Top marks went to Denmark and Norway and booby prizes to Ethiopia and Chad (the U.S. ranked 41st, two notches above the U.S.S.R.). Surveys of this sort usually fuel chauvinistic arguments among civic booster types. But the question is: What do such studies have to do with the way people actually wind up in whatever homes they wind up with...