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...academic sense, almost any immorality. Harvard was, for instance, completely justified by its own lights when it accepted $1 million from the Engelhard Foundation, when it thwarted the efforts of clerical workers in the Medical Are to form a union, and when it set up a committee to punish student activists without regard to due process. These were the actions of men and women who have set up their own priorities, their own ethical standards, to cope with their own peculiar situations as august members of a massive bureaucratic institution...
From Gandhi's point of view, that probably was just as well: her chances of recapturing the prime ministership she lost in 1977 might be enhanced by her being in jail. During the debate over how to punish her for ordering the arrest in 1975 of four officials assigned to investigate the tangled business affairs of her son Sanjay, 32, she sought to provoke Desai's Janata Party into rashly locking her up. By so doing, the Times of India editorialized last week, she would gain "concrete evidence that when it comes to dealing with political opponents, Janata...
Demographic and social changes reward cosmetics firms that stay on top of them, and punish those that do not. As birth rates drop and the postwar babies reach their 30s, the population is aging. That presents a difficult problem, alas, for cosmetics makers, who know only too well that any appeal to women who are "mature" or "experienced" (or whatever other euphemism might be dreamed up for older women) would be the kiss of death. One response that Bergerac has made is to retarget Revlon's lowest-priced line, Natural Wonder, once aimed specifically at teenagers, to reach women aged...
Somerville city records clearly show that city tax assessor John J. Howe has systematically used his assessment powers to reward the political friends and punish the political opponents of his sister, Democratic State Rep. Marie E. Howe of Somerville...
...same time John Howe was allegedly using his assessment powers to punish his family's political enemies, he was also lowering the taxes of the family's political and personal friends...