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...makings of a sandbox brawl: "I saw it first." "Well he's my best friend." Unfortunately, the voices were not those of toddlers, but of Harvard and Boston officials squabbling over the upcoming visit of South Africa's Nobel Prize winning Bishop Desmond Tutu...
...South African Anglican Church had been looking for a new Bishop of Johannesburg to oversee its largest, mostly black, diocese, and the best-known candidate, obviously, was Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. But last month the diocesan electors deadlocked over Tutu's antiapartheid militancy. As the debate flared, the national hierarchy intervened and, in secret session last week, twelve black and eleven white bishops chose Tutu. The bishop, who has led the activist South African Council of Churches since 1978, found a change of tasks entirely welcome. "The time is just right...
...only a small courtesy, but it changed the young man's life. One day in a black shantytown near Johannesburg, South Africa, Primary Schoolteacher Desmond Mpilo Tutu saw a white man respectfully tip his hat to a black woman. Tutu had never seen a white make such a gesture. The woman was Tutu's mother; the white was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, now an Anglican bishop. The priest subsequently befriended the young black, and after Tutu was hospitalized in 1953 for tuberculosis, Huddleston visited him daily for 20 months. Tutu, profoundly impressed, followed his white friend into...
...defective ones naturally slip through, no matter how stiff the controls. Sears has won a reputation for taking back goods without an argument. "I bought a sweater at May's, had it wrapped at Bullett's, got my change at Mandon's, left by way of Desmond's, and when I found it didn't fit, the only place I could return it was Sears, Roebuck," quipped Radio Host Phil Baker of a jostling Christmas-shopping session in the 1940s...
...ethical responsibilities of companies with South African operations in relation to employment conditions and other opportunities enjoyed by non-white employees and their families. Recently the ACSR and the CCSR endorsed several shareholder proposals calling on U.S. companies with South African operations to embrace goals recently enunciated by Bishop Desmond Tutu. Some of these goals go beyond the Sullivan Principles and the principles of socially responsible behavior adopted by Harvard in 1978. Bishop Tutu has called on U.S. companies to help ensure that workers' families should be allowed to live with them; to permit unionization by black workers; to promote...