Word: human
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Therefore it comes as no surprise that rather than assuming a leadership role in the struggle against apartheid, the Corporation has chosen to continue its indirect support of the Vorster government, once more affirming that Harvard places concern for profits ahead of concern for human lives. At the very least, the Corporations' should cease to justify its decision on the basis of moral concern for the "tragic and deplorable situation" in South Africa. An explanation in terms of financial considerations would be no more palatable, but it would not be quite so insluting to the community's intelligence...
...other recipients were: John Cheever, prominent novelist and author of the recent best-seller Falconer; Erik H. Erikson, professor of Human Development Emeritus; and Beumont Newhall '30, photographic historian...
...criticism of the Soviet government and his advocacy of a return to imperial absolutism earned him expulsion from his home country in 1974, and widespread publicity for his views; his subsequent denunciations of Western nations for what he sees as their failure to act against Soviet abuses of human rights have received less attention, however...
Solzhenitsyn's citation reads: The clear contemporary voice of a great literary tradition, like his heroic predecessors a courageous exponent of the unfettered human spirit...
Another issue involved in the Truong-Humphrey case is the future of American relations with Vietnam. Carter may pledge a commitment to human rights elsewhere in the globe; with regard to the nation that we bombed and delohated in the name of democracy, however, the lofty rhetoric is abandoned. Truong and Humphrey's trial may be interpreted by the Vietnamese government as a clear indication that the United States is neither ready nor willing to normalize relations, nor is our government willing to consider the payment of reparations...