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...failure of divestment to cause direct harm to apartheid is inextricably linked to its failure to make a truly effective symbolic statement. The symbolic value of divestiture would consist of a "headline splash" one time, and one time only. Furthermore, the absurd selectivity shown by divestiture advocates is truly appalling. If Harvard were to divest of all stock in companies which profit from profound "evil." It might be reduced to holding only domestically-chartered savings and loan stock. Everything from stock in companies which deal with the Soviet Union. Chile, EI Salvador, and Iran (among many others), or make nuclear...
...young men, most of them killed in a similar manner, were turning up with frightening regularity. Police were baffled, the community was fearful, and the national media were fascinated. Then, in May 1981, a police team staking out a bridge over the Chattahoochee River heard what sounded like the splash of a body and saw a car. The driver, Wayne Williams, was later arrested and convicted of killing two of 29 victims whose deaths were linked by a police task force. He was further implicated in the slayings of 23 others, whose cases were closed...
Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, by Martin/Soderstrom/Matteson Architects, manages to be formal and dignified, and yet lively. It accommodates crowds but also yields intimate spaces with the help of different levels, a colonnade and a fountain to splash...
...mixtures like Obsessive Nectar and Treasure were renamed Honey-Almond Scrub ($12.50) and Jojoba/ Elastin Under-Eye Creme ($15) and put up in clinically white jars for department-store counters. A new blush on the market is makeup for men, but it is not expected to make the same splash as skin care. Marketing strategists for the industry are concerned about avoiding a gay image and like to talk of how often their products turn up at the health club or the gym. Not in every locker room, of course. Los Angeles Raiders Head Trainer George Anderson says firmly...
Blodgett Pool turned into a bombing range yesterday, as the Harvard men's swimming team kicked off its season with a huge splash, handily defeating Villanova...