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There is one more comment of Mr. Howe's which at best must have come from a slip of the pen. He says that President Bok "has made sure that Harvard doesn't invest in companies which don't sign the Sullivan Principles." This is simply false. Robert Neer, a colleague of Mr. Howe's, rightly pointed out in a Crimson article on divestsiture (5/8/84) that "Harvard holds... stock in eight companies that have not signed the Sullivan Principles or are not fully abiding by them." This is public knowledge and has been amply documented. The Corporation itself says that...
...Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite," Fowler wondered, "to ask a presidential contender, during the first serious public scrutiny of his candidacy, to do a comedy impression of Ted Kennedy during a live, election-night interview?'' No one had an answer. All three networks declined to comment on the sayings of Chairman Mark...
...invited comment from almost all observers, from the students who shared the shuttle bus to the perplexed professors whose offices face the area...
...Jackson and whites voting overwhelmingly for white candidates. "A certain latent racism has come out," says Gary Willis, Henry Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University. "People say, 'Whenever I hear somebody stir up crowds, I think of Hitler.' That kind of comment shows a blindness to black style, and it's most often said by people who've never heard a black church service...
...were skeptical of Jackson to begin with. Sympathetic to the demand for a Palestinian homeland, Jackson was borne aloft by Arabs shouting, "Arafat! Jackson!" on a trip to the Middle East in 1979. He was also quoted as saying that he was "tired of hearing about the Holocaust"-a comment that he says was taken out of context. Today many Jewish leaders are convinced that Jackson is antiSemitic. Although Jews and black leaders have had their differences-particularly on the use of racial quotas, which are anathema to Jews but favored by many blacks as a cure for historic discrimination...