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Under its voluntary set of ethics codes (dubbed the Sullivan Principles after their founder the Reverend Leon Sullivan), American companies operating in South Africa have been at the forefront of promoting economy and social change, as well as improving labor conditions for South Africans non-whites...
NONFICTION: The Chief, Lance Morrow -- Citizen Hughes, Michael Drosnin -- Fathers Playing Catch with Sons, Donald Hall -- Henry James: Literary Criticism, edited by Leon Edel and Mark Wilson -- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi -- Up for Grabs, John Rothchild...
...which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of stubborn labor," he wrote to a critic shortly before his death. He wanted his work to be a homemade replica of the values enshrined in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, as manifested in the big French Salon painters: Jean-Leon Gerome, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Felix-Auguste Clement. He loved their important subjects, their grasp of the colonial exotic, their professionalism and high finish. So when artists 40 years his junior like Picasso and Delaunay paid him their semireverent homages, he took them as his due without interesting himself much...
...George Schrecht said "sales to police and military would be nominal, very nominal. We don't make any vehicles in South Africa for any kind of specifically military operation." Schrecht said that GM was one of the 12 original companies to sign the Sullivan Principles, whose author, the Rev. Leon Sullivan, sits on GM's board. It currently has a category 1 Sullivan rating from Arthur D. Little Co., the highest possible...
...business in South Africa. During the proxy voting season and the process of intensive dialogue, through which Harvard tries to persuade ethically delinquent corporations to institute reform in South Africa, the University is guided primarily by the recommendations of the Sullivan Principles, developed by Black leader the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors, and the Tutu Principles, named for Black South African Bishop Desmond Tutu. Together, the Principles require the following...