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Having the UC endorse the present system is like having the UC endorse ending Third World hunger. Both of them might be nice statements, but neither would do anything to solve the problem...
COCA is not trying to change any specific University policy. The point of the sort of activism the group has been carrying out is to make politics come alive for Harvard students--to turn a seemingly abstract, removed, "Third World" situation into something relevant, emotional, and real...
...Germans of 1989 get these racist, anti-Semitic, and nationalistic feelings in the first place? After World War II, those who supported Hitler kept their mouths shut, for obvious reasons, and were hardly able to pass on their horrific heritage. In school, at home, and in the media, we grew up with images of the Holocaust, German war crimes, and the destructive power of ideology and nationalism. We spent years of painful confrontations with the older generation about their involvement in the Third Reich. Does Cooper think that that was all worth nothing...
...environment, Europe and the U.S. have caused great damage, but we ((in the Third World)) have also contributed. In Latin America we have the great Amazon region. The great depredator of the environment is misery and poverty. If we don't correct the problem in countries that still have great ecological resources, then humanity will see itself in the long term confronting a tragedy of survival...
...could have repossessed Irises and put it on the block again, such a move would almost certainly have been a disaster. It might have brought $30 million, maybe $35 million, according to informed sources -- a fire sale. And the results for the art market if the World's Most Expensive Picture lost a third of its value in a year did not bear thinking about. "The last thing in the world we want," a senior Sotheby's executive remarked to Edmund Capon, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, "is for that f------ picture to come back...