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After much thought and agony. I am as of this day withdrawing all support for the Stephen Biko Memorial Fund. For I believe that any tactic which substantially damages the chances of accomplishing the long-term goal should not be supported. Since the Biko Fund takes from students the financial lever--perhaps the only one left after failed marches, failed petitions, and failed discussion--it should not be supported. Support for such a Fund should come only after the Harvard Corporation has adopted an investment policy which clearly supports the withdrawal from South Africa of all American corporations in which...
Laurence Wylie, 69, may be the only French-language teacher who starts his classes with a hard round of calisthenics. That tactic follows, with precise Gallic logic, from his basic premise: le français, in fact all language, is spoken mostly with the body. Says Wylie, a retired professor of French civilization at Harvard: "Just learning the rules of grammar and vocabulary isn't really enough...
With the game tied at the half, 2-2, Dartmouth scored two more goals early in the third period to go up, 4-2, before trying the questionable tactic of freezing the ball for the remainder of the game...
...retrospect, members of the caucus still stand by their judgment in the period. "I still think that the seizure was the decisive issue," Wilson says. "It became the dominant radical tactic of the time...
...Western Europe and Japan, as well as more foreign exchange from the have-not nations of the Third World, the cartel also moved to allow individual members to stick on whatever price-gouging surcharges and premiums they think they can get away with. That made official policy a tactic that many producing countries have been following all winter anyway. Finally, as if to add insult to financial injury, the OPEC representatives went out of their way to try to put the blame for the increase on the industrial countries, which they chide for not curbing both energy consumption...