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...president's most recent, extraordinary measures accord South Africa a unique place on the University's economic and political agendas. For the first time, Bok seems unabashedly unhindered by the fact that countless other suffering peoples could also benefit from Harvard's assistance. Whether Bok has opened a humanitarian Pandora's box has yet to be determined. Clearly, he has broken the paralytic grip that constrained him in the face of daunting moral challenges...
...southern Africa and, to a lesser degree, in South America, a number of countries have acquired or are in the process of acquiring the capacity to build atomic weapons. At the same time, the fragile international system of self-restraint that the world has built around its most deadly Pandora's box of technology, a system that has worked surprisingly well so far, is under growing strain. Says a senior official of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency: "Proliferation has already happened. The main problem of the late 1980s is not so much preventing the spread of nuclear weapons...
Under the old system, only two-thirds of the courses taken outside a student's concentration count toward the GPA computation for College-wide honors. The so-called two-thirds rule opens a Pandora's box of administrative headaches and potential injustices...
...system, only two-thirds of the courses that outside a student's concentration count toward the for college wide honors. The so-called open a Pandora Boy of administrative injustices...
...University officials, in concert with interested student groups (and I daresay that all students ought be interested in the succesful resolution of sexual harassment problems), to lead the victim through this maze of procedural obstacles, bringing him or her through the experience emotionally and academically unscathed. The Pandora's box of sexual harassment has been opened: let not the University slam the lid shut once again...