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...fact is that Egypt is not Iran, the West is not Rome, Israel is not a crusader state, and KAL 007-despite the public fretting of Professor Stanley Hoffmann-was not Sarajevo. Nor was Saigon, as we once thought, Munich. The real "lesson" of Viet Nam is not, as we are so often told, that everything from Central America to the Middle East is Viet Nam (or some other convenient fiasco). It is that facile historical analogies can prove fatal...
Though President Bok concludes that "there is little [we] can do," we believe that the separation of miles should not allow the University to distance itself from the apartheid regime its investments help support While Harvard's divestiture alone will not topple apartheid, it is as Professor Stanley Hoffmann said "The choice is not really between effective and ineffective. The choice is between different degrees of effectiveness, one of which may be more moral than the other." Divestiture is the only remaining untried means to this moral end. Therefore, we urge all who seek Harvard to maintain a morally sound...
...authors: Albert Carnesale, academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government; Paul Doty, director of the Center for Science and International Affairs; Stanley Hoffmann, chairman of the Center for European Studies; Samuel Huntington, former coordinator of planning for the National Security Council; Joseph Nye, former deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology; Scott Sagan, Ph.D. candidate in government, who was the project's staff director...
...like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Hoffmann and Professor Smith for their open support of Harvard's anti-apartheid movement. Although divestiture may not have a direct effect upon South Africa's racial policies, the symbolism of the effort to divest from firms with South African holdings will not fail to have an impact on the international scene. By questioning President Bok's statement and by earnestly supporting the efforts of the student community at Harvard (both inside and outside the classroom). Professors Hoffmann and Smith have encouraged us to become aware of our role in the world...
...attempt last week to pass on a central ethical question as new evidence of the gaping chasm between Harvard investment myth and Harvard investment reality. Bok, in turn, should examine the ethics of cloaking amoral decisions in moral gorses. And everyone should be asking Harvard tough questions, like Hoffmann...