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...vote on divestiture, 5-6-1 against it. The Harvard divestiture movement has inspired successful and profitable divestments by Cambridge and Massachusetts pension funds, and by universities like Michigan State, which reported that through divestment it made over $2 million. Finally, each time the divestiture movement and the Corporation lock horns, the world listens, and white South Africa listens...
...David finally emerged from his sterile world, crawling through an air lock into his mother's waiting arms. But that brief reunion was clouded by worry: a persistent fever, diarrhea and vomiting had made it necessary for doctors to treat him outside the bubble. The symptoms, doctors feared, were signs of the often fatal graft vs. host disease, which occurs when cells from donated marrow attack the recipient's body. During the next 15 days, David developed severe ulceration of his digestive tract and a dangerous accumulation of fluid in his lungs and around his heart. The exhausted...
...impressive victory is a major setback for Mondale, who was so confident of victory here that he spent most of the last three days out of the state Mondale had been considered one of the strongest Democratic front runners in recent decades, and many analysts had expected him to lock up the nomination long before the party's San Francisco convention this summer...
...difficult to perform without mistakes, and a blithe brother-and-sister act from the U.S. slipped in amid the carnage for a silver medal. Kitty and Peter Carruthers' second-place finish was the best by any American pair since 1952, and broke the East bloc's lock on the event. Before it was all over, no nation could claim to have judged without favor; skewed patriotism is more like...
Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien said that Harvard wants to "lock in" a fixed 9 percent rate for the bonds to safeguard the University from fluctuations in the bond market...