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...FINAL most important lesson you could take from the Harvard Corporation is to be open about decisions and receptive to criticism. Harvard has been running scared from a campaign by three graduates running for seats on a 30-member, rubber-stamping oversight committee on a divestment platform. Instead of facing the challenge to their investment ideas, the administration has tried to rig the election and has hidden facts about their decision-making process from the public...
...appointment of William A. Graham Jr. is expected to receive rubber-stamp approval from Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation tomorrow...
...selection processes for faculty and students are conspicuously different in kind. Students are randomly selected by means of a complicated, tiered lottery process, whereas, the faculty usually rubber stamps a slate presented to it by the administration...
Chile's dour 70-year-old dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, reacted harshly. Troops and police charged into an illegal May Day demonstration in Santiago, arresting 500 and injuring a dozen with rubber bullets. Security forces conducted sweeps in slum areas of the city, arresting a total of 11,000 men, who were hauled off to soccer fields and marked for police reference with indelible ink. If the unrest continues, Pinochet is likely to resort to a still tougher response: a state of siege of the kind that finally quelled similar unrest...
Such are the stars of Spitting Image, the British television program in which some 400 latex and foam-rubber puppets reduce the antics of the powerful to a mess of funny faces, pratfalls and spasmodic jerks. Breaking satirical ground and television rules with equal relish, the weekly show regularly strings along almost one in every four British men, women and children...