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...appears incongruous that Bok, who is so attached to certain liberal civic values in Beyond the Ivory Tower, ignores a precept of John Locke's that preceded the felicific calculus of utilitarian theory: consent. Consent is signified by the things we say or do and suggests a commitment. When a corporate institution invests or accepts donations, it acts; it commits itself; and it confers legitimacy on the object of its enterprise. Viewed in this light, "neutrality"--even of the strictly defined type--becomes a facade for vested interests. If Harvard were to balance its arguably defensible investments or gifts with...
From 1948 until 1967, Hussein not only occupied but also annexed the West Bank, without international assent and without the population's consent. Jordan, an American client, opposed Camp David. Hussein supports the right of self-determination for Palestinians and maintains good relations with the PLO. Why? Perhaps because he'd prefer to let Israel deal with the PLO rather than welcoming the group himself. Or so history would suggest...
Meanwhile, the show in the existing Fogg continued to prove the worth of the museum. It is a retrospective-improbably enough, the only one ever held-of 56 paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael, who was by general consent the greatest landscape painter to live in 17th century Holland. It will not go elsewhere in the U.S., so anyone with a serious interest in the art of landscape should get to the Fogg before April 11. We see Ruisdael entire, for the first and perhaps the last time. The man, however, disappears behind the work. Little is known of his life...
...stronger one would cut off military aid to El Salvador unless negotiations are started. The most comprehensive bill of all was proposed on Friday by Democratic Senators Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, two of the Administration's leading critics. It would require prior congressional consent for any military aid or covert action in Central America. In practice, this would make covert action all but impossible. Said Tsongas: "We're on the verge of a kind of 1950s intervention policy. The domino theory does work, but we're going to be the ones...
...America's money miseries have become the ghoulish flipside to the Good Life. For cash-squeezed consumers by the millions, shopping on credit for everything from a new suit of clothing, to cars, kitchen appliances, even a roof over one's head, is increasingly painful. Indeed, by the common consent of economists, towering interest rates have done more than any other single factor to drive the U.S. into a recession that still threatens to push unemployment to a post-World War II high...