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Harvard has profited through its stock in companies who exploit the cheap labor apartheid creates. There's blood on our portfolio. By selling our stock in those companies, we have a chance to morally redeem ourselves, by making no more profits off of apartheid, and by actively helping to see that South African society peacefully transforms itself...
Nevertheless, selling remained so fierce that the banks went to the government for help. After an emergency all-night meeting between the Treasury and the state-owned Bank of Israel, the government agreed to redeem, at the market price just prior to devaluation, commercial-bank shares that had been held by individuals for four years...
...Pentagon payload. But Challenger had barely settled into orbit 190 miles above the earth on the tenth shuttle mission when space gremlins struck. A multimillion-dollar communications satellite, one of two carried on board, mysteriously vanished into the void. Still, in spite of the embarrassing loss, NASA hoped to redeem itself with another of its spectaculars. This week, for the first time, astronauts plan to take a true step into space, leaving the safety of the mother ship without so much as a frail wire to prevent them from drifting off toward infinity...
...Says Hamilton: "I'd like everybody-Rosalynn and Elaine, Peter and Kitty-to come away from this year satisfied with what they've done, and ready for the rest of their lives." Zayak, for her part, is not thinking much beyond the Olympics, the grand chance to redeem her string of failures. "It's made me mad," she says, "and when I'm mad, watch out!" -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by B.J. Phillips with the U.S. figure skating team
Second, emotionalism serves as a vent to frustrated emotions. Politicized violence and riots often act more as therapy than as practical initiative. For an oppressed person in Roxbury or the Third World, free speech is an unfamiliar abstraction. But the opportunity to stand up and redeem one's worth as a human being through militant or violent action...