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...always been a singular conceit of the University--and its critics--that Harvard can make a difference whenever and wherever it wishes. In the case of South Africa today, or even in the case of U.S. policy toward that country today, Harvard simply is not that important. But if Harvard cannot have a "policy" on South Africa, that does not release it from the obligation to register an "opinion" on the matter. If we decide to remain involved in South Africa, whether through "intensive dialogue," proxy votes, or any other means, we are registering an opinion that we at least...
...always been a singular conceit of the University--and its critics--that Harvard can make a difference whenever and wherever it wishes. In the case of South Africa today, or even in the case of U.S. policy toward that country today, Harvard simply is not that important. But if Harvard cannot have a "policy" on South Africa, that does not release it from the obligation to register an "opinion" on the matter. If we decide to remain involved in South Africa, whether through "intensive dialogue," proxy votes, or any other means, we are registering an opinion that we at least...
...Elmhurst, English is not the native tongue of fully half the 1,500 students. All told, they speak 38 different languages. Throughout the New York public school system, there are 113,000 such children, most of them helped along by 2,100 bilingual teachers. But P.S. 89 is singular. There, just before the end of the school year, Ann Pryor was guiding her second-grade English-language class through the basics. She asked each child the salient question, and in a dozen different accents, they answered. "I come from Japan," said Kazuko Hiraga. "I come from Afghanistan," said Omar Norzyai...
Allende is not just an epigone of Garcia Marquez. Writing in the tradition of Latin America's magic realists, she has a singular talent for producing full- scale representational portraits with comic surreal touches. Her rendering of the Trueba patriarch Esteban and his wife Clara is a hilarious display of mismatching. While the crude, commonsensical Esteban is doomed by nature to cause constant offense to his wife, Clara the Clairvoyant irritates her spouse by her perpetual whispered concourse with the spirits...
...Africa and the U.N.'s fund for population control. Paul Weyrich, director of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, turned on McPherson at one point and said, "You're a disgrace. You are unfit to be in your current position." Weyrich's intemperance arose from his singular fears that American funds could be used for abortions and to feed starving people under Marxist governments...