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...effort to reconcile these various groups, then-President Derek C. Bok appointed a faculty commission, chaired by Gomes. The initial goal of the Gomes Commission, as it came to be called, was to discuss the establishment of a Third World center. The committee decided against that initial plan in favor of a more encompassing organization, and thus established the Harvard Foundation...
...purpose was to affirm and enhance, identify and encourage the varieties of cultural and ethic experiences at Harvard, not making everybody conform to one norm, but also not encouraging a separatist mentality, which is what a Third World center tends to do," says Gomes. "We felt that the richness Harvard was beginning to experience through its diversity of students should not be accidental but intentional...
...AIDS virus heterosexually, rather than through intravenous-drug use or homosexual contact, dramatically raised some of the most crucial health questions of the 1990s: How easy is it to get AIDS from straight sex? How fast can it spread? Could an AIDS epidemic like the ones sweeping through Third World nations take root in the general U.S. population as well...
...Trace's estimate is accurate, the take from museum burglaries, gallery heists, housebreaks and the looting of archaeology sites would rank as the world's third most profitable criminal enterprise, behind drugs and computer theft. More and more, art is becoming a prey of organized crime. Italy's single most valuable missing artwork is a Baroque masterpiece, Caravaggio's 1609 Nativity, which was stolen in 1969 from the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily. Investigators in Britain are now convinced that the painting, worth about $50 million today, has been used by the Mafia as security for drug deals...
...MARKETING BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO THIRD WORLD NATIONS AND RURAL INSURGENCIES: This is an incredibly lucrative business, and Harvard has hundreds of chemistry and biology professors who work in impractical fields like comparative anatomy or theoretical chemistry who might do far better work manufacturing third-generation neurotoxins. Remember, we own them...