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Between the ACSR's case-by-case approach and the Corporation's inertia, Harvard's recent investment record has been confusing at best. Although the Corporation espouses a policy of owning voting stock in companies to insure that it can influence corporate practices through shareholder resolutions, it retains $40 million worth of non-voting notes in General Motors Assistance Corporation (GMAC). Lawrence F. Stevens '65, the ACSR secretary, says the investment "may be worth an ACSR review" in the future. However, Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Harvard Shareholder Responsibility, does not see a conflict between...
...Thatcher's slashing attacks against the Labor government dominated the campaign. Speaking in Wales last week, she declared: "Change is coming. The slither and slide to the socialist state is going to be stopped, halted and turned back." All that Labor offered, she said, was "a clarion call for inertia and indolence." Ten points behind in the polls, Prime Minister James Callaghan was meanwhile giving low-key performances portraying himself as the leader who "will unite, not divide, the country...
...this comes as news, it also says something about Jimmy Carter. At the close of a little-remarked-upon television interview last November, he told Public Broadcasting's Bill Moyers that his two most "unpleasant surprises" in office had been the inertia of Congress and the irresponsibility of the press...
...playing midwife to a Faculty that thrashed and groaned like an elephant for three years before giving birth to a mouse called the Core Curriculum, are proof enough of that. Harvard, so they tell us, will last forever, and it will not change--or change easily--because the institutional inertia of 340-plus years of imagined immortality will not permit that. And so the students who cry out to change Harvard actually find themselves faced with a much more difficult problem: making sure that Harvard does not change them. The trick becomes one of accepting the education the institution offers...
...yeasty comic genius of the play rests with a totally reluctant fourth suitor, a court councilor named Podkoliosin (Peter Michael Goetz). Russian inertia runs like psychic sludge through Podkoliosin's veins. He is a precursor of Goncharov's famed character Oblomov, who could barely make the effort to get out of bed. When it comes to marriage, Podkoliosin can scarcely contemplate getting into bed. But he is sponsored and goaded by his friend Kochkariev (Alvin Epstein), a born busybody. Epstein, in his first season as artistic director of the Guthrie, animatedly embodies the temperament...