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...stay in South Africa be judged against such guidelines on an individual basis. This crucial evaluation is to be done by non-existent staff with non-existent resources employing non-existent criteria. The whole point of an advisory committee on shareholder responsibility is to make evaluations of this sort--not merely to state that someone, somehow, should undertake the task. The ACSR report only pushes the question off into the future, allowing the Corporation to do little or nothing concrete this time around to help move U.S. firms towards withdrawal. The report amounts to little more than an abdication...
Opening night could have been a dress rehearsal, so it might be unfair to base these judgments on it. Shortly before the play began, the director called out instructions over my head to a stage-manager, concerning when to lower the lights, cue the actors, that sort of thing. There were less than 20 people in the audience, and the most vociferous of them departed after hooting and cheering for the sexton with a toothache, Jeff Woolf (who seemed so pleased with his performance and his fans that he could barely keep a straight face). Throughout the evening, people drifted...
Crime does pay-sort...
...best in the profession want to see it done ?and enforced. "Lawyering," suggests Eric Schnapper, a New York public interest attorney, "is within the relatively narrow category of occupations where borderline dishonesty is fairly lucrative. In many instances, the very art of the lawyer is a sort of calculated disregard of the law or at least of ordinary notions of morality." Under the current code, he notes, only selected and flagrant violations result in a disbarment. Writes Schnapper: "One searches in vain for a lawyer disciplined for failing to give free legal assistance to the indigent, for failing...
...boat feels good," Strong said yesterday. "We're sort of an underdog, and it's exciting and aggressive...