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...refused to patronize. Farewell to the most recent additions to the cast. To Colonel Potter who saw the war as a Zane Grey western. To Charles Emerson Winchester III, Harvard’s own representative to the 4077th. To B.J. Honnicut, whose quiet manner let him get away with murder. Most of all, farewell to the oldtimers. To the camp fashion consultant, Corporal Klinger. To Father Mulcahey, the perfect priest in the Korean War. To Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan, and to the memory of Frank “No Lips” Burns, who together...
...time reformist hope for troubled Pakistanis—opposition leader Benazir Bhutto ’73, long in exile—came to a tragic end in January, when the former Prime Minister was assassinated on campaign in Rawalpindi. The media attention that swirled around Bhutto’s murder only contributed to the chaos, casting her as a Western light swallowed by a dark, anarchic world—in deliberate defiance of the former minister’s unresolved record of corruption and Western responsibility for some of the turmoil...
...Finally, in Africa, the colonial invasion has long receded, yet its comprehensive effects persist clear as day. Last November, PetroChina became the world’s largest corporation, profiting all the while from the murderous state of affairs in the Sudan, where Khartoum-sponsored mass murder persists in Darfur. Meanwhile, UBS, the Swiss financial services giant, facilitated PetroChina’s rise by hosting its Shanghai IPO—without considering the bargaining power it held to enact change in one of the world’s most neglected, most devastated quadrants. Mere greed seems to have...
...started by members of the senior class, a sum to be held in escrow until the University divests. More importantly, however, the students (and Professor of Biology Richard Lewontin, who has joined them) have stated the issue as the ethical question it truly is. The institutionalized arrests, torture, imprisonment, murder, and other repressive features of the South African system have been discussed and re-discussed for over a decade, in these pages and elsewhere. The only remaining question is: When will the Corporation act on its self-avowed opposition to the atrocities committed daily by the South African government...
...were not only good at what they did, but also good at conveying it to younger people.” They “predisposed” Kozol to teaching, “but the specific event that precipitated my decision to teach” was the June 1964 murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi...