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...Robert Owen '58, hockey...
...days before the magazine came out, South Africa formally abandoned pretense and admitted to the world that it has reached a state of economic crisis. At is press conference in Pretoria, Finance Minister Owen Horwood announced that his government urgently needs a $1.1 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. The request for aid represents an abrupt turnaround, and it raises important questions about the world's most ostracized nation...
History is a nightmare into which the antihero of Good sleepwalks. John Haider (Alan Howard) is a decent enough human being. He is kind to his wife Helen (Meg Wynn-Owen), though she is an execrably sloppy homemaker. Even if he has to cook the meal, he sees to it that his three children are properly fed. With his mother (Marjorie Yates), who is blind, senile and bitter, Haider is agonizingly solicitous...
...although the argument has an appealing ring to it, it is moot. Other universities and colleges as Owen acknowledges, simply do not have the kind of alumni wealth that makes Harvard's capital drive--the largest attempted by a college--possible...
That is worth remembering in light of oft-heard criticism that although Harvard is facing tough economic times like other colleges, other educational institutions are more deserving of contributions. "Does Harvard 'need' my money more than, say, a struggling black college in the South," asks David Owen in a recent article on the Campaign in Harper's Magazine. No, just as he points out, the Boston public school system could easily use extra cash...