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...runs scored. Their teams, the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies, stand thicker than pine tar in taut pennant races as baseball resumes after last week's All-Star break. Though neither starred, Yastrzemski for the American League and Rose for the National were naturally in Montreal to confer, consult and otherwise hobnob with their fellow wizards. Since their base paths do not very often cross, it was a handy time to size them up and make a memory. In another country, in a National League city, the cheers were loudest and warmest for Yastrzemski. Every game, every play...
Traditionally, jobs are the tools of success. In America they have become something more. "We have learned that jobs do not simply earn money, they also create people," says Barry Stein,, president of Goodmeasure, a Cambridge, Mass., business consultancy. Jobs, we have on good authority from the forefathers, confer respect, status and community wellbeing. The foremothers were apparently not consulted on the subject. It is difficult for a woman to find status in a pay envelope that is substantively thinner than a male co-worker...
...bank on ban investments was the one concession Harvard made to student protesters back in 1978. a symbolic gesture that to at least some degree--the University would not confer legitimacy on the apartheid regime. Though the ban fell far short of total divestiture, it did put Harvard the institution on the record as opposing the South African regime. The Corporation, though, showed this winter just how tenuous its commitment to the anti apartheid policy was, temporarily lifting the ban when students appeared too docile to care. Only a strong show of opposition prevented a lasting reversal of the symbolic...
...with the knowledge that this government won't spend its time busting trusts. And the dubious legal records of a number of Cabinet members make it questionable whether white-collar crime will receive the attention it recently did. As for attempts to foster equality, the Administration's willingness to confer highly beneficial tax-free status on racist institutions like Bob Jones University, serves as a fitting emblem of the government's mind...
...University will apparently confer one of 11 prestigious honorary degrees at tomorrow's Commencement exercises on Francis Birch '24, a retired Harvard geologist...