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...redirect the policies of corporations. The logical extension of such an argument is that Harvard should buy even more South African stock so that more corporations come under the influence of men with such high moral and ethical purpose as the Corporation members profess to have. I don't accuse them of plagiarism, but the last time I read such self-serving hypocrisy on the subject was in a recent Times editorial authored by another gentleman famous for his compassion for the downtrodden, William F. Buckley. Sankar Swaminathan...
...think we've misdirected our efforts. We profess to want to stop world-wide hunger, yet we have been blinded to a viable solution by our own dispair. Our efforts have helped reduce particular aspects of the problem, but they have not faced the problem as a whole. In fact, hunger is as prevalent as ever. Last year, 15 million people starved to death. This year, another 15 million will die of hunger...
...this age and in ages to come many things will be said about Jesus Christ, but the faithful, united with their shepherds and guided by the Spirit, will continue to believe and profess that Jesus Christ is true God and true man in one divine person, and that he is the Lord who will come again...
...established, the dictatorship of the proletariat will disappear, leaving the individual genuinely free for the first time. Meanwhile, though, these facts raise hard questions about the true intentions of the so-called Eurocommunist parties of Italy, France and Spain: after decades of being apologists for totalitarianism, they now profess their commitments to democratic principles. Purged from their platforms is the once obligatory rhetoric calling for violent revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat. Italian Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer has said that under his party, "the system must remain that of liberty and individual rights, representative democracy that...
Graduate schools do not profess to train people to write at the greatest possible length for the smallest possible number. But they might as well take credit for the job. Thanks to a number of factors,¹ the typical scholarly article is now a footnote-clotted monstrosity comprehensible only to the few friends, enemies and students who already know what is on the author's mind. Everybody talks about the academic smog; Mary-Claire van Leunen, a writer and editor, has done something about...