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Students had protested the proposed naming since the dedication of the new K-School building in October. They said Harvard should not honor a man who had made public statements condoning apartheid in South Africa, and demanded that the K-School renounce publicly any connection to Engelhard, rescind its agreement with the Engelhard Foundation, and return the foundation's $1 million donation...
Workers Friday put up a controversial plaque commemorating Charles W. Engelhard in the Public Affairs Library at the Kennedy School of Government...
...presidential hopefuls learn one thing from the elections in Great Britain, let it be that they can win a campaign by saying what they feel, not what they think the public wants to hear...
Spenkelink's death intensified the national debate that has long raged over whether capital punishment deters crime and should be retained or is a cruel and unfair form of revenge that ought to be abolished. Sociologists have never definitively answered the question, but the views of the American public, aroused by violent crime, seem clear: polls show that nearly two-thirds of the people favor capital punishment. Accordingly, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1972 against the arbitrary way in which capital punishment was imposed, 34 states have rewritten their death penalty laws to conform with the court...
...Even in public, Carter joked bitterly about his problems. During a broadcast interview with members of the National Cable Television Association, which was meeting in Las Vegas, Carter said, "I am sure some of you are riding a better streak at the casinos than I am in Congress. For one thing, the odds are obviously better where...