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...years ago, every newspaper carried stories about the hunger strikers in Northern Ireland. Today, the British are in Ireland, along with a few more graves. I'm sure the students here are fasting for a limited time, but I don't think they will even get the token gestures that Williams conceded to its strikers...
Most of the interested parties in this troubled region recognize that a lasting solution to the perpetual state of warfare requires the active participation of the Palestinians themselves. By the same token, surely Arafat must by now realize that no nation, let alone Israel, can afford to deal with a Soviet-equipped pseudo-military organization unwilling to bend in its insistence on total control over the West Bank and Gaza...
Dartmouth, a token entrant in this regatta (having never won it) since its inception in 1955, limped to the finish line well behind the two Cambridge boats...
...cocaine will amount in the end to a token fight. "All we can hope to do," says Sergeant Rene LaPrevotte of San Francisco's drug squad, "is prevent someone from setting up a cocaine stand in Union Square." One federal official, who has been with the DEA since it began in 1973, has no heroic notions of putting an end to cocaine runs. "We feel like we're part of a spectator sport," he says. "We're not the answer. The answers are going to be found in your wallets and your conscience...
...took several student marches, and an angry open meeting with the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), to force the Corporation to back down. The core of Bok's 1978 defense lay in the "Sullivan Principles" for corporate behavior in South Africa. Bok pointed to this set of token reforms, like integrated washrooms, as evidence that corporations can play a progressive role in South Africa. Five years later, the Corporation still invests in at least seven companies which have not even signed the Sullivan Principles. The Corporation has refused to divest from Carnation Corporation, a Sullivan signatory which has been...