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...Howe, divestiture means taking a "Pontius Pilate approach of dumping moral responsibility." Nothing could be farther from the truth. We are not asking Harvard to dump moral responsibility, we are asking Harvard to begin to take moral responsibility Hugh Calkins, the Corporation member whom Howe envisions toiling feverishly over the divestiture question, once flatly stated. "Harvard does not take ethical considerations into account when making investment policies." We think it is high time Harvard started. Anthony A. Ball '86 Third World Students Alliance Black Students Association Southern African Solidarity Coalition...
Just because an administration which has copiously investigated the South African problem has correctly concluded that taking the Pontius Pilate approach of dumping its moral responsibility for its investments is a bald copout, that doesn't mean it somehow supports racist oppression...
...they would almost certainly turn out to be even more authoritarian than the present government, and El Salvador would join Cuba and Nicaragua as a Soviet client state. Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé publicly accused some Congressmen of wanting to "wash their hands of Central America like Pontius Pilate" and charged that "un der the cloak of being concerned about human rights" they would "impose a course of action" that actually would help the leftists in Central America...
...theatrical endeavors. Staged in the massive Kirkland House JCR. Superstar involves close to 30 actors in a perpetual whirlwind of motion, as well as an extremely competent 14-person orchestra thumping away madly in the background. The script contains not a single line of spoken dialogue, unless you count Pontius Pilate yelling. "Twenty-two! Twenty-three! Twenty-four!" while Roman guards put Jesus to the lash. The rest is music numbers of the sliding, dazzling quality that marks the composer's better-known Evita and the lately revived Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat...
Terry Ray Robinson as Judas provides the single most powerful head of steam to keep the show moving through these cloudinesses of interpretation. His stage presence and confident characterization are matched by Chad Hummel as Pontius Pilate, who pads on and offstage like a lion, and Suzanne Tanner as a warm and believable Mary Magdalen. Isaacs, unfortunately, adds little to the pivotal role of Jesus besides his face; his voice and assurance improve markedly toward the end of the show, but his projection of any moral leadership or savior-like attributes at all wavers...