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...UNIVERSITY'S ANNOUNCEMENT late last week of the decision to sell over $600,000 of stock in two banks that lend money to the apartheid government of South Africa came as a surprise to almost everyone involved in the divestiture conflict...
...could three people effectively and with due consideration visit their assigned areas; read hundreds of applications and assess them; recruit in all the major black communities; present candidates' cases before the admissions committee; lend support and help all student recruitment efforts; lead a personal life; and maintain their sanity at the same time? It was clear to the students that this type of tokenism was being used by Harvard to undermine the Third World recruitment effort. The perseverance of Black students in questioning this force resulted in the rein-statement of black student recruitment...
Harvard's decision this week to sell over $600,000 worth of stock in two banks that lend money to the South African government proves once again that the University moves in mysterious ways...
...University yesterday announced that it will sell its stock in Citibank and Manufacturers Hanover Trust, two U.S. banks in Harvard's investment portfolio that lend money to the South African government...
...unfortunate that Bertolucci chose to portray unresolveable tension; whether or not his message is valid, it does not lend itself easily to a heavyhanded treatment. The main conflict in 1900 is the love these two men bear for each other, across ideological and social grounds; and the main question we are left with is why they bear it. De Niro and Depardieu are both fine actors, and play their roles well, so the fault lies elsewhere--probably with their director. In his effort to give 1900 an epic vastness, it seems, Bertolucci lost sight of the smaller things, the individuals...