Word: neglectment
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...safe to say that the paranoia level was high on all sides." Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, who edited the cover, was struck by the complexity of the current cocaine craze, both in its origins and implications. "Unlike heroin, cocaine use can't be tied to poverty and neglect," he says. "It seems to have more to do with social ritual, spiritual impoverishment and lack of confidence in the future." Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who wrote the main story, speculates that cocaine's appeal is at least partly explained by its association with power and prestige. Says he: "Cocaine...
...opera managers neglect the war horses at their peril...
Some, though, tell a different story: they insist HRE is wrought with waste, that its single mission it to make money for the University, and they are the victims. "Sometime in the mid-1970s, Harvard reviewed its policies on real estate. Until then, we had seen benign neglect; now they are in a new abrasive, expansionist phase," Michael Turk, principal organizer of the Harvard Tenants Union, says...
...simply oversight that prompts administration neglect of these issues. It's fear, mostly of alumni. The men who run this University think those who went there in years past and who now provide its financial support will react with alarm should they become enlightened and allow too many female professors, or give too much support to the portion of their students that are gay, or end their policy of supporting apartheid through investments. In a sense, then, alumni are already putting on pressure, and Harvard is already conforming to what it perceives as their wishes...
...minority, and that your money will stay in the bank or be given to some other worthy cause, until those assurances are made. Write to Harvard and say you love this school and its history, but that you would love it more could it shrug off the legacy of neglect for others that colors its actions. Write Harvard and ask that it begin to feel some real sense of responsibility for its actions--on campus, in Cambridge and the nation, and around the world...