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IN RECOMMENDING that the Harvard Corporation vote its shares against resolutions that would force companies to disclose their sales in the Republic of South Africa, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility acted in a way that is, if not racist, certainly misguided. The ACSR rejected the disclosure resolutions aimed at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The ACSR and South Africa | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

Bok ignores the history and simply lumps scientific regulation with the other undesirables. He comments specifically only once: "Decisions about the direction of research should be left to individual investigators rather than deans..." The phrase, "direction of research," is vague and in another context the statement might seem benign. But...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok's Deregulation | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

In only six weeks last July and August, 27 patients at the Michigan VA Hospital suffered respiratory arrests that left them unable to breathe without mechanical aid. Some patients were stricken more than once; eleven of them died. So many breathing failures could not be accidental; patients and staff alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death Follows Art | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

ONLY STANLEY KUBRICK could have done it--made a film more beautiful, more boring and more expensive than The Great Gatsby. Barry Lyndon is a bad film, a disaster of epic proportions, though its stately pace and self-effacing irony gloss over the worst. There are parts of it that...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: The Titanic Sailed at Dawn | 1/15/1976 | See Source »

The slop, labeled "Poison for the Government," was then poured in tobacco tins and left to stew in the sun. Russell's daughter Kate says that the game was one of her father's ways of teaching his children that everything the government did was "completely misguided if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pleasure Principia | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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