Word: failed
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...advise the Corporation. Bok appoints the committee members himself, but does not always follow their advice. And when he says he will accept their decision, for example, about the meaningless Sullivan code-of-corporation behavior in South Africa, he lies and the University maintains investments in companies which fail to sign the Sullivan principles. Where is democracy--or even an "appropriate" means--in this situation.' For Bok to come out and define "appropriate" to be those methods which he has insured to be ineffective is manipulatory. Democracy instead resides in E4D, where students who have no vote in the Corporation...
...other argument is that a contribution to the University must be positive--not a negative sanction of withholding money unless all one's conditions are met. Bok, and his administrators, simply fail to see that E4D is positive. The people who give to E4D are not Harvard-haters. Quite the opposite. They want the best Harvard possible, and they are saying--in the tradition of Thoreau--"I cannot in good conscience give money to an institution that has financial dealings with companies that profit from apartheid...
...fact that many nations fail to back us in the U.N. lends strong support to the demand that this country quit the international organization [NATION, March 26]. The indignity of our position in that body makes our continued membership untenable...
...increasing strains on his always uncomfortable coalition with France's Communists. In an often sarcastic hour-long television interview early last week, Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais called the steel plan a "bad thing" and damned the entire restructuring policy as a "tragic error" that is "doomed to fail." Marchais insisted that his party would remain in government and oppose the policy from the inside. Some high-ranking Socialists believe, however, that the Communists really want out-but will go only if they are expelled...
Parker: Well, in response to the last statement. I would say first that it's simply not true that the courses taught by some of the people who have come here in the last 10 years or so, fail to attend to details in a rigorous fashion I deny that Secondly, and probably more importantly, it seems to me that to teach law without attending very importantly to the assumptions upon which legal discourse is based is radically unrigorous and indeed sloppy...