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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Divestment is not just a moral issue; it is a political one. It is a question of where Harvard will vest its power: its legitimizing power, its image, and its economic power. It must be answered not by elegant intentions or phrases, but by action. Divestment is a relatively painless thing. New York City actually made money doing it. Should Harvard, then, put its weight behind the political aspirations of the Black majority, or will it remain the discreet quisling of the Bok regime? To a growing number of students and staff at Harvard, the choice is clear. Richard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Not Too Late | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

ONLY A QUACK offers a quick, painless fix for a serious illness. And although we may be tempted at times to seek such expedient treatment, sound judgement tells us to forebear...

Author: By Gregory D. Rowe, | Title: Selling Your Soul to the President | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...town's 800 residents are Anglos. Flores held up one finger and said with a grin, "We call him El Gringo." What is happening along the border, says University of Arizona Anthropologist Tom Weaver, is "the Americanization of Mexico and the Mexicanization of America." It is a relatively painless way for neighbors to become friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Border Symbiosis | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

Boston College suffered a quick and painless death at the hands of the Harvard men's volleyball team last night at the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spikers Outclass B.C., Snag Easy 3-0 Victory | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

...lunch counter in Kresge's just wasn't enough. The summer riots told us that social equality was too difficult to achieve, so we refused to bus our children. Ecology and a healthy economy are hopelessly opposed. America awoke from its ethereal trance, and recognized that there are no painless panaceas...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Taking the Liberal Out of the Democrat | 11/10/1984 | See Source »

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