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Similarly ridiculous is Mr. Conway's insinuation that Harvard should continue to support and reap profits from apartheid so that its students can remain concerned about South Africa. Whether or not Harvard divests, students who are sincerely concerned about human rights violations will find time to address them wherever they occur--in South Africa, in Central America, in Soviet Russia--and in the United States, for that matter...
...council has already obtained financial backing for the Dead concert and is at no financial risk; on the contrary, it stands to reap a few thousand dollars...
...moreover, would reap a bitter diplomatic harvest. Israel, which responded to the Tyre explosion by bombing Palestinian and Syrian military positions, usually can hit back and stay within the brackets of the Middle East military equation. For a superpower, such a response would reverberate dangerously and complicate Washington's other goals. Meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam last week, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned that Britain would not support U.S. strikes against Syrian targets. U.S. Special Envoy Donald Rumsfeld, who was appointed to his post two weeks ago, planned to stop in London to see Thatcher...
...boat with Edward Hopkins, the uncle of Elihu Yale, a man who did a similar favor for a struggling New Haven college in 1718. Never mind the differences in the patron saints--Harvard was a stern religious man while Yale, the governor of Madras, used his official position to reap a fortune in the diamond trade and sent his wife off to England alone while he lived with a Portuguese mistress...
Dartmouth Student Committee blocked an attempt by a campus entrepreneurs club to reap profits from the sale of textbooks to students at prices lower than those at Hanover's main bookstore...