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These are noble sentiments, but the taint of yuppiedom does stain initiatives like Harvard's fund or the Brown consortium described in one article. Suddenly a group of extraordinarily wealthy institutions announces that public service is once again a priority and in good yuppie style they proceed to set up computer banks, hire a professional staff and allocate a large budget...
When Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan added a taint of anti-Semitism to Jesse Jackson's 1984 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, many black leaders seethed--but in silence. No longer. After Farrakhan laced a + speech in Los Angeles last month with racist remarks, Mayor Tom Bradley condemned the Black Muslim's "dangerous" anti-Semitism and said he and the minister were "poles apart." Before Farrakhan was to speak this week in Madison Square Garden, a coalition of the city's black and Jewish leaders denounced him. Said black City Clerk David Dinkins: "When (Farrakhan's) opinions express...
...questions remained. What did Hernu know, and who gave the order? Said the paper's executive editor, Daniel Vernet: "I'm not sure we'll ever know, but we'll try . . . to get the answers." Mitterrand's decisive action last week may have averted a governmental crisis, but the taint of political liability remained...
HOWEVER, HARVARD ALSO has insisted that the proper way to solve the problem is through mediation. Many other universities follow Harvard's lead on their investment policies. But given the recent moves of many states, cities and private groups to divest themselves of South Africa's taint, Harvard's omission acquires the status of a holding action, even a de facto affirmation of investment in South Africa, and not Bok's "appropriate" aloofness...
...mental residue that had not yet been erased from the minds of these abused children. The story never resolves this point, only concluding with the pessimistic realization that the good can never completely vanquish the bad. Although the governess manages to banish the ghosts from the house, their taint has already in part destroyed the children. In The Turn of the Screw nothing mitigates the relentless course of evil...