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...context of a nation wide trend, Harvard's divestment would be a drop in the bucket, but no one would disagree that once you have a whole lot of drops in the bucket, it tips over," says Ball. "Neither are we calling for a quick fix, a cure-all for Apartheid that will alone cause a transferral of South Africa overnight. What we are saying is that Harvard can't shirk its responsibilitity to play a part along with individual church groups, states, and voters who are also awakening to responsibilities...
...cure has yet to be found for what the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has publicly declared the nation's number one health problem. The 1986 budget proposal would cut AIDS research funds from $96 million to $86 million, a sum much lower than the HHS has requested. A report issued February 21 by the Office of Technology Assessment (a research group affiliated with Congress) found the Reagan Administration's treatment of the problem deficient. The report added that despite advances in the research, the department's efforts have "not always been supported by financial and personnel resources...
Superficially, the recent medical advances in the area of AIDS research and sums still budgeted for it would seem to suffice. Yet doctors have indicated otherwise. Reagan's neglect will devastate the chances for finding a cure...
...corner into which critics on his left had tried to paint him. No longer could they accuse him of being "against" arms control. He could go them one better, outflanking the arms-freeze movement and matching the nuclear abolitionists. Star Wars, if it worked, would even be a "cure" for nuclear winter...
WHILE SHAINESS is both interesting and scholarly when explaining the origins and manifestiations of masochism in daily life, she verges on the simplistic in the chapters devoted to self-help. In addition, "the cure" Shainess is proposing is unettling in a couple of ways. First, she insists that women must develop a tough self-contained autonomy to avoid being victimized, on the premise that people will victimize if they see vulnerability. Granted, one should be selective about whom one opens up to (the masochist is characterized by a need to show her vulnerabilty to everyone), but Shainess fails to show...