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...should also recognize that far more than divestment would be needed to sever all our links to South Africa. If it is wrong to hold stock in an American company doing a tiny share of its business in South Africa, one would suppose that it is also immoral to hold shares in the many companies that buy goods from South Africa or sell goods to it, since they too benefit, from the Sough African economy and presumably help to sustain it. One would also suppose that Harvard should not accept gifts of money derived in some demonstrable part form South...
Afro-American Studies 105 was scheduled to meet in Kennedy School Room 280. Economics 1690 was slated for Sever 305, Kennedy School M-809 was put in K-School 140. Funny thing was, they all had the same title, professors, hours, and course description...
Israelis should get out of all Arab lands. Then the U.S. could sever the umbilical cord that links us to Israel in a relationship that costs us so much money and gives us so much trouble in dealing with other nations...
...rarely last more than six months to a year and may be followed by intense, burning pain that is worse than the original complaint. Surgery is often reserved for terminal-cancer patients. For such patients, neurosurgeons have devised delicate operations to cut nerves causing local pain, and even to sever nerve tracts in the spinal cord and brain. In some instances, rather than destroy nerve tissue, doctors can implant electrodes into the spinal cord or brain. The patient can then use an external transmitter to stimulate nerves directly when he feels pain...
...Despite Sever's political victory, the Corporation was not a real exponent of academic freedom in the 18th century. It still engaged in frequent battles with the Overseers over University business and frequently hired and fired professors for their personal beliefs. Harvard would have to wait over 100 years, until the term of President Charles William Eliot, before the University's hiring policy truly reflected respect for academic freedom...