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...They ended up accepting the premise of divestment advocates, namely that the University had a moral responsibility not to invest in companies that were complicit in apartheid,” Mansfield says...
What's best in Spurlock's film is what's most conventional about it--talking heads speaking persuasively about how a huge American industry seduces the innocent with cheesy toys and free playgrounds. In this effort, government at every level is complicit. The feds ship sloppy joe makings to grateful school-lunch programs--it's the cheapest grub available. Other schools contract for pizza and sodas from corporate purveyors while cutting back on phys-ed classes. And everyone starts getting fatter younger. And sicker younger--with all the attendant social and medical costs...
...film that she saw a black man aiding the murderers' search for Till, and that Milam's green Chevy pickup was not alone when leaving the kidnapping, but one of a "caravan." Beauchamp eventually concluded that as many as 11 people--six of them white and five black--were complicit, and presented his findings to Mississippi authorities in February. Quizzed about the witness count last week, local district attorney Joyce Chiles replied, "That number would probably best come from Keith Beauchamp. The only thing we're doing is following up on statements of people he has already located...
...certainly changed the life of county chair Linn. The 45-year-old Portland native faces a recall effort, one that the left-of-center Oregonian has endorsed. Good-government types have excoriated Linn and the complicit commissioners for their concealment. "If they can't be trusted to make a momentous decision in an open, fair and respectful manner, they shouldn't be trusted to direct the daily operation of county government," thundered the Oregonian. "They have proved themselves unfit for public office...
...Marines on the ground trust the Iraqi forces to disarm the insurgents on their own. "If the Iraqi officers hope to get cooperation from the bad guys in Fallujah, it is because they are complicit," says a U.S. officer. Many Marines in the company are aware an assault on the city would have been a bloody affair for both Iraqis and Marines. Some are relieved the attack will not be taking place. But they suspect that in a couple of weeks or a couple of months, they will be sent back to finish the job. "What you saw today...