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...coffers of Harvard's endowment, the obsession with financial considerations at the expense of ethics remains a serious problem. Harvard's growing stake in venture capital investments is not a problem by itself. We recognize that high yields on the endowment are good for all of us. We object, however, to the total lack of oversight by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) over such investments. Harvard Management Corporation (HMC), which controls the University's investments, has sunk more than a billion dollars into high-risk, high-yield "private placement" investments, all without a trace of accountability to anyone...
...psychology of individual hate: "It has a lot in common with love, chiefly with that self-transcending aspect of love, the fixation on others, the dependence on them and in fact the delegation of a piece of one's own identity to them . . . The hater longs for the object of his hatred...
Floating above Seattle with my balky DataGlove, I'm inclined to agree. There is an irritating delay between the moment I tip my head to the left and the time the images move to the right. When I reach to grab an object, there is no physical sensation of hitting a solid surface. When I do make contact, my hand is as likely to pass through the object as to connect with...
...nation will not long sustain an enterprise whose only object is to keep Americans in the wasteful, oil-guzzling style to which they have become accustomed. As time passes, the President will keep the support of Americans only by giving them a larger and clearer sense of the purpose of the mission. If the stakes are as large as the world's economic order and the danger that Saddam Hussein, armed with nuclear weapons, might eventually set off a Middle East holocaust, Bush should explain that...
...FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deoderant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top," Illustrate;" be specific," etc? They mean it The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant, but they must be there...