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...proposal to a new and generally inexperienced ACSR. A Corporation official began the January meeting with a homily on the evils of apartheid and the great weight he placed on ethical criteria in investment policy. Then, almost as a casual afterthought, he asked the ACSR to rectify a "minor flaw" in the University's current bank policy which would force it to divest from banks trying to make "good loans" to the South African government. He gave as an example the Citibank loan which he claimed South African Blacks actually solicited...
Perhaps The Selective Guide's worst flaw of all is that after dusting off the college-counselor cliches, and after answering a few conventional questions that fail to capture a college's essential spirit, the essays have a way of ending on a confusingly upbeat note. How is a high school senior supposed to choose among the following...
...busy finding ways to break them down. Research into computer security, now going on at numerous companies and universities, has become almost as supersecret as nuclear-weapons development or germ-warfare studies. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and at SRI International are studying a frightening flaw in the programming of many computer systems that could allow criminals who find it to get around standard security measures. For obvious reasons, the investigators refuse to disclose the nature of this chink in a computer's armor until companies have had a chance to solve the problem. Says Charles...
Reagan's argument suffers, however, from one considerable flaw: it implies that Roosevelt, the great innovator and experimenter, would still recommend the remedies of 1932 for the problems of 1982. That is an implausible prospect. Though Roosevelt might not have favored the swollen growth of Government intervention, regulation and spending, it seems likely that if he could return to survey the results of the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society, he would bestow on them that famous smile of satisfaction...
...they have to practice, Blodgett Pool is the place to do it. "We have as good a springboard facilities as anywhere in the country," Walker says, adding that the pool's flaw is the absence of a ten-meter platform--a flaw that can hurt recruiting...