Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credit, the administration did negotiate with the student demonstrators and once in negotiations University officials tried to be fair. But the University only agreed to talk once it became clear it could not ignore the legitimate concerns of students that Harvard was publicity honoring a man who supported the apartheid regime both verbally and financially. After all, 500 students chanting "Harvard Out Now!" might disturb the ceremony and look bad on the six o'clock news. As usual the administration's primary concern was pragmatic, not moral...
SATURDAY: Fair in Schneider, 11-3. Jazz Group playing during the fair, One and five miles races in the morning. Speakers from "All My Children," 3:30, Library Lecture Room. Dinner Theater at Schneider, 7 pm. Parties from...
Canton is sassy, sophisticated - and shabby. Its 3 million people are uniquely exposed to the outside world. Within hiking and swimming distance are British-ruled Hong Kong, where many thousands of mainlanders have relatives, and Portuguese-administered, anything-goes Macao. The twice-yearly Canton Trade Fair lures swarms of foreign wheeler-dealers, from Macy's and Neiman-Marcus, Fiat and Hitachi. Yet Canton is no showcase. The Cantonese do not radiate the physical vitality of most urban Chinese; many are poorly clothed. There are more people milling aimlessly and noisily around than in other Chinese cities. The Pekingese call...
Hsinching has a population of 21,626; the peasants privately own and cultivate 8% of the land. The commune has a busy, fair-sized hospital staffed by 30 nurses and 40 paramedics, "barefoot" doctors: its bare-toothed dentist boasts that every last piece of equipment was made in Shanghai...
...convinced, contrarily, that she must be willful, neurotic and blown about by stormy emotions. Neither turns out to be the case. Her face is lively and full of intelligence, and it shows none of the opacity that she assumed for these two roles. At 23, she is a small fair-skinned redhead, wearing, for lunch in New York, a professional beauty's noontime getup: pants and a T shirt...