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...gradual, five-step policy to force corporations to pull out of South Africa. The letter, signed by over 100 professors, urged Harvard to stop investing in corporations operating in South Africa, and to support or initiate shareholder resolutions calling for corporate withdrawal. According to this letter, if these efforts fail, Harvard should adopt a policy of selective divestment...
...point, though, is a general one, and like many general points, it has truth to it that does not apply to every particular situation. In the vast majority of cases, when Harvard students try to effect change in anything other than student-run organizations, they fail. And to the extent that they do succeed, it is largely—as in the case of preregistration—on issues of circumscribed, if not trivial, import...
...then some. Finally, one August day in 1992, she says, "something just clicked. I knew I had to do something." Arias started swimming at a local pool and limiting what she ate. At first, she didn't tell anyone what she was doing because she feared she might fail again. But after the first month, when she lost 25 lbs., people at work started to notice and compliment her efforts. After two years, she had lost more than 100 lbs.--and she has kept the weight...
...could not fail to be inspired by Majora Carter?s efforts to bring green space for exercise to the South Bronx. Or by Lance Morgan?s efforts to create an ?active living? community for his fellow Winnebago tribe members, so many of whom die young from obesity. We need more ideas like these to bring solutions to minority communities, where obesity rates are sky-high and poverty is an obstacle to healthy eating. We also heard ideas for using more funds from the Transportation Bill for paths for walking and biking...
...altered history's course. They put their faith in both luck and faith. "Sometimes at night," recalled Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of the 82nd Airborne, "it was almost as if I could hear the assurance that God the Father gave another soldier, named Joshua: 'I will not fail thee nor forsake thee...