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...This council has a long-standing tradition of support for divestment," Mather House delegate Steven A. Nussbaum '86 argued. "It's implicit that we've supported people giving to the Endowment. We supported it then [in 1983] and we support...
They are calling for similar treatment for a nation they say is clearly less deserving of the benefits of American capital and the implicit support by Harvard--through unchecked investment--of companies that operate in the Soviet Union...
...Committee for the Restoration of the Woolly Mammoth certainly has nothing against humor. Even the most serious of causes can be funny, and the Committee took no offense at the satire implicit in the SASC's "Hey, hey, ho, ho, blood on your portfolio" antics. We admit that some of our slogans, such as "Derek Bok, Derek Bok, Let the woolly mammoth walk," were trite, and could stand some mockery. Now, however, the fun has gone too far. Victoria G.T. Bassetti's editorial in the Oct. 28 Crimson, far from being humorous, is seriously offensive. Parodies of mammoth slogans...
...school-aged students are at an obvious disadvantage. They have much less opportunity to make up for time lost. Students who must sacrifice the contents of their courses for the purposes of learning a language are illequipped for both the job market and for continued academic careers. Furthermore, the implicit message relayed to non-English students forced to take classes in English is that education for them is a vocational exercise while for their peers it comprises content-laden studies. Expecting students to thrive in this environment is unreasonable and counter to the purpose of education...
...lines of the garments, the tones of the fabrics, the unstructured and unstrictured social attitudes implicit in both the making and the wearing of Miyake clothes are, altogether, something rather more than an alternative form of dressing. They are Japanese in origin, Western in spirit and, finally, universal not just in their impact but in the ravishing new images of the body they propose. These clothes taunt trend and defy style; they are not "fashion," except in its broadest generic definition. They are objects made by a designer who has the true spirit of an artist...