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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked at in the context of a nation wide trend, Harvard's divestment would be a drop in the bucket, but no one would disagree that once you have a whole lot of drops in the bucket, it tips over," says Ball. "Neither are we calling for a quick fix, a cure-all for Apartheid that will alone cause a transferral of South Africa overnight. What we are saying is that Harvard can't shirk its responsibilitity to play a part along with individual church groups, states, and voters who are also awakening to responsibilities...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Divestment Groups Plan More Public Activism | 3/14/1985 | See Source »

...public meeting, nearly 4,000 people belted out an anti-Pickens song (chorus: "There's gonna be a meeting at the old town hall tonight/ And if they try to stop us, there's gonna be a fight./ We're gonna get our company out of this awful fix,/ 'Cause we don't want to change our name to Pickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Times for T. Boone Pickens | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Words cannot do justice to this multimedia experience. In color, songs and dance in evokes a rollercoaster of emotions. "Revelations" begins with sorrowful songs like, "FIX Me Jesus" and "Didn't My Believer Daniel." The slow, almost painful pieces break into a scene around a river. "Take Me to the Water" women a white gowns and men in their finery dance as the river rises. They sway, push and pull and upon there is no doubt that the river is rising. Donna Wood. holding a parasol way above the water, sends shivers up one's spine as she moves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Now That's Really Dancing | 2/8/1985 | See Source »

Leftists insisting we got the mystic fix...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Back to Haunt | 2/7/1985 | See Source »

...compared with a 3.3 1973. In 1994 69 percent of Harvard freshmen received their top choice House while 91 percent of freshmen were assigned to one of their three choices. In the words or one eminent and farsighted Master "if it ain't broken, don't fix...

Author: By R. Scottfalk, | Title: THE HQUSING LOTTERY | 2/7/1985 | See Source »

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