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...HARVARD corporate responsibility structure is generally for prohibition of corporate contributions to political candidates, but against prohibiting contributions to referenda. It is against disclosure of information when the corporation has already disclosed some information or when the information might be competitive. It is against review committees and quota systems and, in its most consistent positive stand, for corporate withdrawal from the South African colony Namibia. Most resolutions fall into one of several common categories, so once the ACSR and the Corporation have laid out their ground rules, which don't appear likely to change, the pace of voting speeds...
Terkel encounters the usual quota of people who say "I am a machine," "A monkey could do what I could," "I'm an object." Or more poignant because less forensic, the retired truck driver, age 66: "Most of my friends died on the verge of getting pensions. Because the truck driver at 40, his kidneys are beginning to kick up or he's got his whole prostate gland giving him a bad time." There are also moments of revelation. From a black washroom attendant in Chicago...
...School in 1971 while blacks and other minority students were admitted under special lower academic requirements, DeFunis filed suit. He was admitted to the school under court order while the case made its leisurely way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. By whatever name-reverse discrimination, affirmative action or quota system-the emotional issue argued by DeFunis, a white, was whether blacks and others as a class could constitutionally be given preferential treatment...
About 35 House courses are now given under present guidelines. The plan, if each House gives its maximum quota, would double that number...
...from everyone, often even from themselves. An alcoholic may go on for years, imbibing three martinis at lunch, two more on the way home and three when he gets there. One day, however, he may wind up in a hospital with a broken leg and, deprived of his daily quota, may suddenly find himself in the middle of the DTs (delirium tremens), which are characterized by extreme agitation, confusion and frightening hallucinations...