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...stance on divestment was used as a model for universities across the country. In her six years as an overseer, she was not able to get Harvard to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa, but her term paved the way for the election of Bishop Desmond Tutu and others sympathetic to the divestment cause to the Board of Overseers in the late 1980s, and they were able to get a small passage calling for responsible investing in the Board of Overseers Handbook...
...every member of the Fly Club and Hasty Pudding Social Club can be spotted on campus in a red lumberjack-plaid jacket, but Desmond S. Fitzgerald ’04 looks right at home. Despite a distinguished lineage—his grandfather, Robert G. Stone Jr. ’47, served on the Harvard Corporation for 27 years and was its Senior Fellow from 1995 through 2002—Fitzgerald has always felt free to blaze his own path...
...rally site, famous peace advocates such as South African Anglican Arch-Bishop Desmond Tutu, actress Susan Sarandon and Martin Luther King III spoke out against...
Last spring, the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College performed in a ceremony to honor South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his struggle against apartheid...
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a South African psychologist of striking moral intelligence and clarity who served on Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up in the aftermath of apartheid's overthrow to try to deflect retaliation and revenge. Eugene de Kock is a white South African who served for many years as the commander of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads. De Kock is serving a 212-year sentence in a Pretoria prison for crimes against humanity...