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That the University now may be willing to divest from tobacco companies to protest their unethical business dealings in other countries seems to be an immense inconsistency. Harvard should wield its influence as a stockholder to influence the tobacco companies--even though it still hasn't used that weapon to retaliate against companies for their involvement in the apartheid state...
...rates will shoot up, and we'll have a recession; or, as the trade deficit narrows, domestic and export demand will combine to create inflation; or, the burning of Brazilian rain forests will deprive the world of oxygen, and we'll all choke to death; etc. But the sky hasn't fallen. And trying to persuade people it's going to fall any minute is probably not the best way to build a consensus on the next step...
ELECTIONEERING never seemed so easy; at least, it hasn't since the last time Harvard interferred in the ballot process...
Rick Finnegan, night manager at Paperback Booksmith on Brattle St., said, however, that the magazine "hasn't sold as we expected it to." Only 12 copies are gone from the store's shipment of 95, he said...
...believes the proliferation of microcomputers in schools and homes has exacerbated the problem. A powerful technology became widely available without the development of a code of ethics to keep that power in check. "We're harvesting our first crop of a computer- literate generation," says Lunzer. "The social responsibility hasn't caught up with them...