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Judging from the account in the Crimson's January 26 issue, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility seems a curious thing. The ACSR argues that introducing shareholder resolutions to companies operating in South Africa should be a "last resort" action because, in the words of one of its members, "More good comes from working with companies than in shooting off a rocket and having nothing left we can do." In order to identify the proper way to take such a momentous step as a shareholder resolution, the ACSR distinguishes between "action" and "information" resolutions. The ACSR considers the former, which...
...task of endlessly gathering information from obliging corporate officials. Perhaps it is high time for us to conclude that the people on the ACSR, wittingly or unwittingly, are conducting what amounts to an elaborate, if entertaining, sham. They certainly don't seem to think that there is any such thing as shareholder responsibility...
...neither should we. The ACSR is right--it is "relatively ineffective" to ask companies operating in South Africa if they would mind desegregating their lunchrooms, as per the Sullivan Principles. For one thing, the South African government won't let them do it. For another, a desegregated lunchroom doesn't do away with a vicious migrant labor system which confines hundreds of thousands of black South Africans to miserable shantytowns located at a discreet remove from South Africa's modern cities. Nor does it prevent a regime from charging black South Africans tuition for a sub-standard education while providing...
Besides invading nuptial bedrooms, one source of village thrills is driving. For thrills, European driving beats roller coasters hands down. Driving full speed is the manly thing to do, and everyone delights in weaving their small cars around other small cars, usually at the most dangerous intersections. European drivers have discovered that three cars will just fit on a two-lane road, so they often pass even when another car is coming, knowing that they can probably still squeeze by. White-haired French grandmothers drive like American teenagers, and as for the French teenagers--their driving makes the Grand Prix...
...great challenge--most people have not treated the indigenous Hawaiian culture as a serious thing. They haven't really seen the American-Hawaiian encounter as a significant cultural collision," Stanley said...