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...other large corporations. Not a single one of the candidates says a word about divestment, which The New York Times (April 5, 1986) referred to as "the biggest campus issue since the end of the Vietnam War." Rather, we get from the official candidates such platitudes as "To maintain Harvard's preeminence in today's rapidly changing world will reqUire the continuing support from one of Harvard's greatest resources, its alumni/ae...
...revise and amplify your report of my comments in order to correct any false impression that I am an enemy of welfare state liberalism who adheres to some marginal, exotic brand of ultra-radical politics. I embrace many of the political and moral sentiments associated with liberalism. I maintain, however, that the highest aspirations of liberalism can only be attained by a willingness to reject certain deeply entrenched social practices and by a willingness to indulge in speculative thought that some will condemn as hopelessly utopian. Randall Kennedy Harvard Law School
...part of the bargain, Harvard agreed to maintain the Department of Military Science "as an integral academic and administrative department of the institution" and to provide classrooms and office space. Harvard also agreed to give credit to ROTC courses that could be applied towards graduation requirements...
...expulsions illustrated, there is a delicate balance between freedom and authoritarianism in Indonesia. For two decades President Suharto, 64, has struggled to maintain stability in his strategically located republic. The archipelago's 13,677 islands sprawl 3,200 miles across some of the world's busiest East-West sea-lanes. With 173 million citizens, 87% of them Muslims, Indonesia is the world's fifth most populous nation. Though nonaligned, it has been friendly toward the U.S., and vice versa...
...scholars have fallen in totalitarian regimes. But one of the many dangers that neo-conservative ideologues overlook, in their crusade against the "evil empire," is the tendency to have our ends justify any means, and thus the erasing of the differences between the ethical standards a liberal society must maintain, and those of its enemies. Stanley Hoffmann Chairman Center for European Studies