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...continued to argue against divestment. In one of his infamous open letters, Bok wrote that “blanket divestment” was a dubious policy in which the University would “deviate from its proper role, jeopardize its independence, and risk its resources with no realistic prospect of success.” However, Bok simultaneously allocated a million dollars for black South Africans to study at Harvard and for Harvard affiliates to work for the public interest in South Africa.Upon his return, Bok will again face the issue of divestment, this time with Sinopec, a business with...
...curricular review, a project whose outcome will likely affect all undergraduates’ course requirements. The approaching departures of both Kirby and Summers have cast into doubt the curricular review’s future. Finally scheduled for a vote this semester by the Facutly of Arts and Sciences, the prospect of the review’s failing because of departing leaders is distressing. But student involvement could greatly increase its likelihood of passage.Fortunately, there has been a flurry of student activism focused on reviving debate on the curricular review. An online petition to save the review began to circulate late...
...POLICE EVEN AFTER SCOTT RUSH'S FATHER CONVEYED HIS CONCERNS TO THEM)? I think the criticism of the AFP is quite unfair. I'm very sympathetic, as we all are, with the parents of young people who get caught up with this drugs thing. It must be a terrible prospect to think your son or daughter is going to spend the rest of their life in an Asian jail, or indeed any jail. But nobody can seriously say they haven't been warned...
...outbreak of communal conflict has raised the nightmarish prospect of an even wider and more destabilizing war that would tempt the country's neighbors to intervene on behalf of the partisans. And the violence threatens to spoil the overriding U.S. objective in Iraq: brokering the formation of a broadly representative government, which the Bush Administration has hoped would defuse the Sunni-led insurgency and facilitate a substantial withdrawal of U.S. troops. To protest the other side's excesses, Sunni and Shi'ite leaders have both walked away from U.S.-led negotiations on the new government...
...allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners access to a trial. Most of the prisoners currently held at Guantanamo were captured during the invasion of Afghanistan which began in October 2001. Many “Gitmo” detainees have been held for four years without a trial or even the prospect of attaining justice. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld expressed his disagreement with the commission’s report last Friday, saying that “Gitmo” hosts “several hundred terrorists, bad people, people that if let back out on the field would try to kill...