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Cruz is forthright in saying to others that "in the long run, what I'm doing is political: helping kids from poor neighborhoods use education as a tool..to become leaders...
...Divestment: Jewett sticks to Harvard's policy of intensive dialogue with South Africa-linked firms. He said he "doesn't particularly see divestment as a useful tool in influencing" the apartheid state. He said he would prefer to see student pressure on Washington and would support a public policy pressuring the regime to reform its apartheid laws. But, he said, the costs of Harvard's divesting would be great, both financially and in the precedent it would...
Organized labor and women's groups see comparable worth in a different light. Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, said her group would "raise hell" over the decision, and lauded the concept as a tool that women can use "to break out of the ghetto of low wages." Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a plaintiff in the Washington suit, called comparable worth "pay equity for workingwomen." McEntee said the union intends to appeal last week's decision to the Supreme Court...
Cruz is forthright in saying to others that "in the long run, what I'm doing is political: helping kids from poor neighborhoods use education as a tool..to become leaders...
...culture writes some chapters of its memoirs in waste. But unlike other German avant-gardists of the '20s and '30s, he was not a political artist with party allegiances; he was utterly absorbed in the ideal of autonomous fine art. "Art is too precious to be misused as a tool," he declared. "I prefer to distance myself from contemporary events . . . But I am more deeply rooted in my time than the politicians." After half a century, Schwitters' constructions, which include every kind of urban detritus--the crumpled sides of a child's tin train, theater tickets, cigarette packs, fragments...