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Students and members of the Harvard community should be aware of the issues surrounding divestiture and the policies of the South African government; more to the point, they should try harder to become, more familiar with those concerns. Because the complexities apparent in the paradox that is South Africa reflect the problems of our society--racism, economic inequality as a result of the capitalist system, Third World health problems, and the role of corporate investment in developing countries--it represents a sort of Pandora's Box. When it is opened, the ramifications will be felt by all humanity. So South...
...paradox is intriguing: the soulful voice and the drop-dead campiness. It also invites a few questions, which Boy George, 22, can handle expertly. "I'm not gay," he says. "I'm as gay as I am heterosexual. O.K., I've experimented with both sexes, but I'm not a limp-wristed floozy and I'm not a transvestite. Transvestites show tits, man. I'm 6 ft., I'm a man, and I have no delusions." As for his appearance, Boy also says that he has "experimented" a good deal...
This crucial paradox is typified by Houghton Professor of Chemistry Jeremy R. Knowles, one of the only natural scientists whose name consistently crops up in discussions of the dean search...
Four years after the popular uprising that overthrew the bloody and grasping dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaragua is still lurching through an erratic political and social transformation, in which many of the ultimate goals of the regime are, at best, haphazardly defined. Consequently, Nicaragua abounds in paradox and ambiguity as its leadership claims to be launched upon a new experiment: an attempt to align Marxism-Leninism with the principles of political pluralism and democracy. Says a sympathetic American observer: "The Sandinistas really like to believe they have invented a new way, a laissez-faire, nonstructured Marxism in which people...
...convicted on questionable grounds, the release of information on the issue brings some insight--a value in itself--to what was otherwise a blot on the country's upholding of human rights ideals. National security is a consideration, but so are individual freedoms; and it would be a sad paradox to deny freedoms at home to secure ourselves against a government whose very repressiveness is what we strive to combat...