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...when Stanley Hoffmann confronted Bok at last week's Faculty meeting with a question that cut to the heart of the divesture debate, the Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France had reason to expect an answer. "Are there any circumstances in any country." Hoffmann asked." where you or the Corporation would support divestiture and how different would these conditions have to be from the conditions in South Africa?" But Bok didn't answer. "It's a question," he said, "[that] I have to ponder...
...wonder the president took Hoffmann's query as a non sequitut. Bok and Harvard's financial managers simply aren't accustomed to grounding investment decisions in ethical standards, only to dressing them up afterwards in ethical mist...
...Third Reich items he handles every year. Many are signed photos of Hitler, which, if genuine, are worth from $350 to $ 1,000 to collectors. Such photo forgeries are often simple to detect because Hitler rarely signed a picture unless it had been taken by his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, who stamped a distinctive seal on his photos...
FIRST OF ALL, the six members of the study group--professors Albert Carnesale, Paul Doty, Stanley Hoffmann, Samael P. Hantington and Josheph S. Nye Jr, and graduate student Scott D. Sagan--tick off their views (and occasionally their differences) on any number of timely strategic issues. Most notably, they back the deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe, oppose a blanket "no first use" policy, and split on the construction of the MX missile. They also urge a partial nuclear freeze, oppose the B-1 bomber, and expose developing anti-ballistic weapons that could violate the 1972 SALTI accord...
...course, the group authorship of Living With Nuclear Weapons may well have contributed to its embrace of what might be called moderate deterrence. Had Huntington been in charge alone, the book might well have seen deterrence as a longer-term good. Had Hoffmann written it, a more minimal deterrent--short of today's expensive parity--might have prevailed...