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Although students and professors may find these investments unconscionable, the HMC will defend its holdings with companies active in Sudan and other terrorist-sponsoring states in three ways. First, they will claim that divesting will hurt financial returns for Harvard’s endowment, which will limit academic enrichment opportunities for the community. Next they may respond that Harvard’s endowment should not be used as a political tool. Or, as HMC president Jack Meyer told the Crimson last week, divesting from companies may hurt job prospects for Sudanese civilians...
...When not in scenes, the class- mates turn into a chorus, chanting lines ("You think you know me, but you don't") that echo key themes of the drama. And when the play is over, a moderator guides the audience through a postshow discussion as the actors, in character, defend their actions and theatergoers assign them to chairs, ranking their behavior from most to least objectionable...
...picture of his friend Dick Pershing, from whom he had been inseparable in prep school and college and who had been killed in a rice paddy by a Vietcong grenade. "Every time they attack what I did on those rivers, they attack people who are not alive to defend themselves," Kerry thundered. "This is an outrage. I'm not going to sit and take this anymore." When the rest of the team in Washington joined the conversation by speakerphone, Kerry learned that it wasn't just a principle at issue: the campaign's polling numbers were showing an alarming slide...
...arrived, Kerry's operation showed a new edge and agility. Less than an hour after the last chant of "flip-flop" echoed across Madison Square Garden, Lockhart engineered a midnight rally in Springfield, Ohio, where Kerry told a crowd of 15,000, "I will not have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could have and who misled America into Iraq...
...happened to be the third anniversary of Sept. 11, three of the people Kerry trusted most--Cahill, Sasso and longtime adviser Michael Whouley--laid out the choice in its starkest terms at a meeting at Kerry's Georgetown mansion. He had to quit twisting himself in knots trying to defend the Senate votes that had put him on all sides of Iraq, and focus instead on making the case against what Bush had done there. He could no longer keep saying that he wouldn't have gone to war the way that Bush had. He was going to have...