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...group of five women met at Agassiz House Tuesday night to help organize and coordinate efforts to compel the University to change its hiring policies towards women...
Harvard Delivery's failures are doubly disturbing because the administration--specifically Archie C. Epps III, dean of students--was instrumental in setting up the organization. While the administration cannot guarantee error-free service, it is obligated to oversee Harvard Delivery. Epps has taken no steps to compel resumption of complaint processing and has never required the service to set up a system for reimbursing students--something that should have been done before Epps granted the campus delivery franchise. Epps's inaction becomes even more disturbing in light of his alacrity in arranging subscriber rebates in January 1974 when a subsidiary...
Proving a case of bribery against an executive might well require evidence from foreign sources that U.S. courts have no power to compel. Then too, as one Washington official states, "We will not clean up the Indonesian civil service by American law. It will take a bribe to place a telephone call from Surabaya to Jakarta, as far as I can tell, for the next 50 years. Do you send an American businessman to jail for that?" The answer is, of course, no: enforcement would have to focus on the big payoffs...
...before the investigations are finished. One company now under suspicion is Boeing, which supplies more than half of the commercial airliners flown in the non-Communist world. The SEC last week disclosed that it is investigating Boeing for possible bribery, kickbacks and illegal political contributions, and filed suit to compel the planemaker to hand over its records...
...graceful closeups which distinguish her style, Wertmuller evokes the intensity and eroticism of a great love affair so subtly and effectively as to make Last Tango in Paris seem like a mouthwash commercial. The subjective gaze of the camera and the expressive interaction of the actors combine to compel the audience to identify strongly with the characters, men with Gennarino and women with Raffaella. In fact, the emotional force of the relationship juxtaposed with the tranquil natural beauty of the island is so powerful that even viewers who come into the film with feminist sympathies find themselves responding avidly...