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Cavalier as he may have been about his wives, he had a deep moral sense. At the height of World War I, he risked the Kaiser's wrath by signing an antiwar petition, one of only four scientists in Germany to do so. Yet, paradoxically, he helped develop a gyrocompass...
The group is trying to collect 100,000 signatures on a petition protesting high rents and home prices, which they say are increasing evictions and homelessness in Cambridge. The group plans to deliver the petition to Massachusetts Gov. A. Paul Cellucci in March.
Beyond any possible connection to the gubernatorial campaign, the proposed change in the law tremendously benefits all incumbents. These changes corrupt both the letter and the spirit of the original petition. The Clean Elections law was submitted in an attempt to curb the enormous power of incumbent representatives. Incumbents attract...
Among those faculty members who signed the petition were Coatsworth, who is also director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith; and Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62.
"We hope the 50-plus professors who signed the petition don't limit themselves to signing the petition, he said. "They must use their power as Harvard professors to actively denounce and condemn this decision."