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...Corporation continues to passively support the systematic subjugation of South African blacks. The Corporation magnanimously agrees that apartheid is reprehensible, yet refuses to do what little it can to hasten its end. No one believes that divestiture, in any form, by the University would signal the economic death-knell of South Africa, but the Corporation fails to take into account the moral value any divestiture would have. In the end, the Corporation has proven once again that Harvard is more of a business than a place of education and values...
...plant will offer to the Mission Hill residents who surround the plant's site, such as the two-year construction jobs, and a housing project that it claims could not be built without the plant, some residents believe that the power plant will sound the area's death knell...
...Marketeers continued to engage in what the Duke of Edinburgh called a "bout of statisticuffs." Each side drew upon the same meager data to make contradictory claims about the impact of EEC membership upon the British economy. While anti-Europeans argued that a yes vote would be the death knell for British sovereignty, former Prime Minister Edward Heath, a tireless pro-Europe campaigner, hailed the EEC as a peace bond between France and Germany; he appeared to imply that if Britain withdrew, Europe's traditional archfoes might soon have another go at one another...
...death knell of the city," predicts Boston City Council Member Louise Day Hicks. "People will not comply," says State Senator William Bulger. "They will leave the city." From Hyde Park to South Boston the doomsayers were in full cry last week, and their bombast was directed at Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity. In a 104-page court order, Garrity produced his final plan for desegregating the city's troubled schools-a decision that promises, at the least, to keep Boston in turmoil for months to come...
...Jake isn't too far wrong. Dartmouth is 1-1 in Ivy play, and a loss to the Crimson today would sound the death knell for any Green hopes of a sixth straight title...