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...scale the indifference of the Harvard Corporation to repeated demands by faculty and students for divestment from companies operating in South Africa. Corporation members Hugh Calkins ‘49 statement that Harvard’s investment decisions are divorced from moral considerations: President Bok’s conflicting remark that the Corporation had already “decided what is right” by not divesting and Treasurer George Putnam ‘49’s laughter upon hearing of the last have all been publicized, thereby calling attention to the often callous attitude of the Corporation toward...
...Curtis Osborne, a small-time cocaine dealer and addict, killed two people in a dispute over $400. His crime revulsed the town of Griffin, Georgia, one measure of which was the bigoted remark a local inmate reported hearing at the jail: "That little nigger deserves the chair...
...repulsive as the remark was on its own, far more disturbing was the fact that the person alleged to have uttered it was Osborne's own court-appointed lawyer. And somehow, through years of appeals in state and federal courts, no tribunal has squarely confronted this basic but fundamental question: is a person on trial for his life entitled to a lawyer who does not hold him in contempt and believe he should be executed...
When Adam Clymer ’58 was covering the 2000 presidential campaign, he wrote several articles that the Bush camp considered unfavorable. In a remark that was unintentionally picked up by microphones—and then by major media outlets—George W. Bush turned to Dick Cheney at a campaign stop in Illinois and said, “There’s Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times...
...wholly accurate to say Mitt Romney is unlikely to get that call from Sedona. There is no love between McCain and Romney; the two men don't care for each other, come from different wings of their party and have said some things that make Bush's "voodoo" remark seem harmless...