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...lowest-cost higher education in the world—tuition is only about $40 for the first year and about $170 for the subsequent three years—the school combines some of the day-to-day logistics of a cooperative with an academic program underpinned by corporate sponsorship. The corporate sponsorship program is touted as a win-win, enabling interested companies to build human resources capital in an under-educated continent...
...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemned Cambridge Police tactics as unconstitutional, and city leaders later demanded an investigation into Cambridge’s sponsorship of the celebration...
Vice Mayor Marjorie C. Decker asked Healy to divulge how much the event cost the city, and also questioned whether the city’s co-sponsorship violated municipal human rights codes because of the military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian service members...
...national liberation." Disavowing imperialist ambitions, he went on, "We have no commercial interests or desire for bases. We are just helping people achieve freedom." The Soviets, he added, in a dig at Reagan for supporting anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua and Afghanistan, "do not export counterrevolution." Moscow's sponsorship of regimes in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Kampuchea was no different from Washington's support of governments in its own "areas of vital interest," like El Salvador. Reagan dryly retorted that, unlike the Soviets, the U.S. has not occupied those areas with troops or gone to war there...
...Stephen exhibits no outrage or deep sense of betrayal at having been an unwitting partisan in the cold war. He suggests that the iniquity lay not in CIA sponsorship but in that support's having been kept secret. The reader may wonder whether he is being evasive or naive: it is, after all, the agency's job to be secretive. Late in the journals, Spender traces the devolution of his political thinking, from innocence to idealism to resignation and concludes that "the world is run by a special race of monsters...