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...read the last issue of the Crimson it struck me as rather peculiar that three quarters of the editorial page was devoted to the discussion of the grates that Harvard had installed and then removed at Leverett House. Not to belittle the plight of the homeless in Cambridge, that too is a great injustice, but when only one article in the Crimson is devoted to commemorating one of the greatest men in our country's history, something is defintely wrong--with us, the students. You'd think the crime of the century had been commited, the way angry undergrads ranted...
...callousness that Harvard has shown the unfortunates who must resort to using our excess heat to survive. However, I believe that more people are upset about the cruelly symbolic aspect and unseemliness of the grates themselves, rather than the underlying problems of the security of students and the plight of the homeless...
Harvard's first responsibility is to the safety of its students, for my safety. I believed that night that I was going to be physically assaulted. Had I been, students would not be complaining about the plight of the displaced men, but about the lack of security that had allowed two women to be attacked. There would have been an outcry that this security problem had existed for over eight years and no one had tried to ensure the safety of the students. However, the outcry is instead that Harvard has been needlessly "cruel" to the homeless while to trying...
...plight, post-Turner, shows how escaping a raider can still leave a company seriously wounded. To evade Turner, CBS spent some $1 billion to buy back 20% of its shares. Now the company is selling profitable TV affiliates and its toy division to repay its debt. To further cut costs, CBS fired 74 news-division employees in a single "Thursday massacre" and offered early retirement to 2,000 people...
...least twice. When the Soviet government released film footage purportedly showing the Sakharovs strolling through Gorky last summer, he was actually on a hunger strike in Semashko Hospital, where Soviet doctors resorted to force-feeding him through the nose. The couple tried to get out word of their plight, but their messages were often altered to give the impression that all was well...