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Membership on the ACSR not only afforded the opportunity to learn about the South Africa question and other ethical matters of relevance to the University as a stockholder, but also a chance to gain insight into the ways in which an influential institution reacts to an emotionally charged issue that poses a challenge to the very world view of the institution's chief officers. I am speaking of the dilemma that the seven Harvard Corporation members face in deciding how to handle the University's investments in companies doing business in South Africa...
...Carbide's restart announcement as welcome news. Institute townspeople were pleased too. Said Charles White, 60, a longtime resident: "MIC is one of the bread-and-butter products for Union Carbide. I think they need that product, and I feel that the accident at Bhopal has given them more insight into safety measures...
Late last week, the official Soviet news agency TASS announced an event that may offer further insight into Chernenko's condition: Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou will make an official visit to Moscow in mid-February. Because Papandreou is a head of government rather than a head of state, protocol requires only that he be received by Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov. But Moscow has been courting Papandreou's socialist government assiduously of late, and Chernenko, health permitting, would almost certainly want to take part in Kremlin talks with the Greek visitor...
...suppose this is not to be expected from someone who gets his political insight from places where other people sit. Richard A. Bennett...
...most Harvard students, and they are largely correct. It's not so much that I object to my classmates' overwhelming decision to pursue law, business, or medicine--all worthwhile professions--as to the unthinking way in which many seem to hop on the assembly line. It is no new insight to say that Harvard students are conformists, nor would it be novel to note the insular nature of a laundry list of everyday student concerns, the food in the dining halls, the extension we need to get, the study card that has to be signed, the party in Quincy House...