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...Coalition is planning to sponsor a forum on human rights on Dec. 1, and members hope the group will outlast the California initiative and go on to address similar measures in the future...
While sanctions are hurting the poor, who survive on beans and rice, shops in Port-au-Prince were well stocked. Cement supplies began to run out and so did Kellogg's Corn Flakes, but well-to-do supporters of the junta boasted they could outlast Clinton. Local supermarket owners said they had enough stock in warehouses for at least three months. "The prices are higher," says a Haitian executive, "but I can still get everything I need." (Last week, however, gasoline prices shot up abruptly...
Others would try to outlast it, or at least outwit it, through cryonics, say (though it may be no coincidence that their most famous example is said to be Walt Disney). And others talk blithely of Dr. Kevorkian or 100,000 dead in Hiroshima, as if to avoid its more immediate implications for us. But the fact remains: this article will someday be posthumous. That face I touch will, in the not too distant future, be out of reach. Tibetan Buddhists meditate upon images of dancing skulls, and ancient Egyptians, during feasts, had skeletons brought to their tables...
...occasion of Harvard's 250th anniversary, Charles William Eliot, the University's greatest president, painted an optimistic picture of its future. "Universities are among the most permanent of human institutions," Eliot said. "They outlast particular forms of government, and even the legal and industrial institutions in which they seem to be embedded. Harvard University already illustrates this transcendent vitality...
...politely, offer encouraging words and then do little. Occasionally, they abandon any pretense of regard for student cocerns, ignoring requests or quashing them with a vote of the Faculty. More often, they dawdle around until students' four-year Cambridge life spans expire, secure in the knowledge that they will outlast each crop of student activists. As the apocryphal story goes, former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky once told striking students, "You will be here for four years, I will be here for the rest of my life, Harvard will be here forever." Sometimes we wonder who is more anxious...