Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tenured Professor, despite its excesses and factual inaccuracies (Galbraith at one point has Harvard investing $200 million while Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu sits on its Board of Overseers), resonates with a feeling of reality. Galbraith, after all, realizes how things work--he understands America's economy; he perceives its societally-imposed norms; and he knows Harvard. This realistic overcast to the sage professor's satire is disturbing, because when all is said and done, his comedy is biting, and its tone is black...
...home township of Soweto, children danced around Mandela's house singing "Mandela is coming!" Declared a jubilant Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "Here he is, this man who has such a crucial role to play in the making of this new South Africa...
...Tutu says that Harvard's voice counts, then Bok should make sure that Harvard uses that voice. And if Tutu says Harvard should divest, Bok should at least consider the final step of total divestment...
That he can dismiss divestment so cavalierly suggests distrust of Tutu and more fundamentally, of the Board of Overseers...
...doesn't listen to Tutu now, what's the use of the Board...