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...place and in the degree of the brutality, may seem to some observers to be unrelated to the Harvard/Radcliffe community. It is not unrelated. The seeds of violence are here, as everywhere. They exist in deeply rooted differences of belief, in individual intolerance, uncertainties, and frustration, in institutional inertia, and in intensly competitive situations with high personal stakes. Civilisation is a fragile veneer requiring constant vigilance and effort to sustain. It requires everyone to make commitments for the common good...
Murphy said he was concerned by the "inertia indealing with the AIDS epidemic," which he haswitnessed at Harvard and other institutions. Headded that Harvard's impact on AIDS research isparticularly important because the University"controls a network of centers that have astranglehold on all the medical research in thearea...
...combat this "inertia," ACT-UP has sponsoreddemonstrations at research facilities, negotiatedwith drug companies and has been involved withHarvard's statistical data center, an organizationthat receives clinical trial results from all overthe country, Murphy said
...that he wants nothing more than to be in Peru with his master. "Being your page is enough, sir," Ruiz says. Submission seems to be Hall's implicit motif throughout the performance, as he is completely unable to assert his character. He is too burdened with flat delivery and inertia...
...Education is the most backward single institution in all the U.S. I don't know of an industry that spends less money on research and development. It is not for lack of money. It is a lack of intelligence and will and competence. It is a bureaucratic inertia that is unbelievable and inexcusable. Between 38 cents and 41 cents of our education dollar gets to the classroom. That is an act of irrationality. We are not putting our resources where the kids are. In the city of New York there are more school administrators than there...