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...ramifications of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention, as well as today’s anti-genocide initiatives, were discussed in a commemorative speech given by Visiting Professor of Law Richard J. Goldstone, followed by a panel discussion yesterday evening. The event, “The Genocide Convention at 60 Years: New Challenges or the Same Ones?” analyzed legal and humanitarian effects of the post-World War II convention—“its impact, its meaning, its relevance for the next 60 years,” said panel moderator Jennifer Leaning, a Harvard Medical School...
...crux of Faust’s speech was the argument that Harvard has already paid—and continues to pay—its social debts in kind, so to speak; that the work the University does in educating young people and contributing to the world’s research constitutes an unquantifiable sum far beyond what we might provide with a tax from the endowment. “If the endowment were smaller, we would have to do less,” she noted, and then connected this “less” to a string of unassailable...
...year. The historian chose in this historical moment not to make an abstract address about the location of Harvard and its students in the world, but instead to present a political case for the tax-exempt status of the endowment. It was, all told, an eloquent and well-argued speech, drawing a clever equivalence between the strength of our ledger books and the munificence of our deeds. But in choosing to dedicate her speech to warding off the specter of taxation, President Faust betrayed the tacit terror with which Harvard meets the prospect of the government meddling in our treasury...
...already included in China's constitution, but they are widely ignored and abused, and advocating them in public can be seen as a perilous challenge to the Communist Party. The document calls for an entirely new constitution for China, as well an independent judiciary, direct elections, freedom of religion, speech and assembly, and the right to form independent political parties...
...party member for nearly 60 years, and had been purged more often than a top model's digestive tract, only to claw his way back to the leadership. China was desperate. The horrors of the Cultural Revolution were a fresh memory. As Premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech to a World Economic Forum conference in Tianjin this year, in 1978 "the country was in a backward state ... with the economy on the brink of collapse...