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...think, or the structures we use to display that thought, or the values we assign to one kind of thought over another? It seems to me deadly. To try to say this thought is innocuous is to insulate the status quo from its effect--it is to lend an unexamined life...
...Corporation's argument for their proposal sounds familiar today: "Mechanical divestment offers Harvard no positive levers to influence banks to lend in a socially responsible manner...It is a costly means of expressing our disapproval...
With the nation's attention centered on the presidential sickbed, Sao Paulo became, in effect, Brazil's second capital. Cabinet ministers and state Governors converged on the hospital to lend support to Neves' family. At the same time, senior government officials reportedly met to decide what to do in the event of the President-elect's death. Vice President Jose Sarney, 54, concluded that he could no longer keep official matters on hold. "I'm going to start wielding my pen," he said after the fourth operation. "Regardless of the respect I have for President Tancredo Neves, the interests...
Washington will be seeking the quiet backing of Algeria, a country that / could lend support to Arafat in breaking with hard-line Syria by agreeing to negotiate. In addition, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy will leave in mid-April on a fact-finding tour of the Middle East. "There is no virtue in doing nothing," admits one senior American diplomat. But Reagan insists that, although he would be happy to meet with a delegation of Jordanians and Palestinians, it is up to the Arabs to find a way to get formal negotiations under...
...money through a maze of banks, real estate investments and other transactions. They provide up-to-date counsel on how to minimize legal exposure--for example, by drilling operatives on what to do and say when they are arrested. Using the shield of attorneyclient confidentiality, full-time Mob lawyers lend their offices as unbugged meeting places for the planning of new schemes. When lawyers commit crimes to "protect the leaders of criminal cartels," said Irving Kaufman, commission chairman and New York federal appeals court judge, "the result is not only a crisis of confidence...