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...Harvard law student who spent the summer in Southern Africa, I am writing to protest Harvard University's recent decision against divestment. President Bok argues in his open letter of explanation that divestment is a bad tactic against apartheid in South Africa. I have never found either of these justifications for continued investment in South Africa to be analytically persuasive, and after a summer of meeting and talking to South Africans of differing political persuasions, both within and outside of the opposition movement, I am more firmly convinced than ever that Harvard must immediately divest from all corporations doing business...
...prosecution charges that Masselli and Galiber conspired with top Schiavone executives, including Donovan, to inflate the value of work that Jo-Pel claimed to be doing on the subway project. One tactic, Merola claims, was for Jo-Pel to bill Schiavone more than $90,000 a month for "renting" tunnel-digging equipment that Donovan's company let Jo-Pel use free of charge. Schiavone officials passed these bogus rental bills along to the New York City Transit Authority, which then paid Schiavone. In all, Schiavone collected some $12 million for work it claimed that Jo-Pel had done...
...divestment a more effective way of inducing companies to withdraw than voting in favor of corporate resolutions to withdraw? There is no evidence to indicate that this is so. Neither divestment nor shareholder resolutions have caused any American company to withdraw, and neither tactic holds much promise of doing so in the future. Shareholder resolutions and dialogue with company executives have at least led to some tangible corporate actions to improve the lives of Black South Africans. Divestment has no had even this effect...
...ongoing battle between the U.S. and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the U.S. employed a tactic last week that one UNESCO official called "psychological warfare." A confidential study by the Congress's General Accounting Office that harshly criticizes UNESCO was leaked to the press. The report charges the agency's Senegalese director, General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, with large-scale inefficiency and mismanagement. Said M'Bow: "I was elected by all the 161 member states to head the organization . .. and not one of them can force me to hand in my resignation...
...righteous indignation throughout the trial. They portrayed their client as an embattled entrepreneur seeking to fulfill the American dream, a man himself the victim of a giant conspiracy: "Lured, lied to and pushed" into a trap set by Government agents who were "on a headlong rush to glory." The tactic was to put the Government on trial, and it worked. De Lorean never took the stand. Nor did his lawyers ever make a direct defense on the grounds of entrapment, which might have required an admission that De Lorean had committed a crime...