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Most of the students agree that although the South African economy is stable enough to withstand total withdrawal of American corporate influence, both the United States and Harvard should divest. "Morally, I support divestiture completely," says Menell. "It's not really a practical question, but the South African government does care what its American ally thinks of it." Fox also argues that divestiture might "frighten" the whites into believing that clinging to apartheid will no longer be tolerated by the world community. He adds that Harvard's divestiture would have little or no effect, but that it would constitute...
That achievement is impressive. Still, even the task force's prize examples of cost-cutting are likely to have some negative as well as beneficial results. By requiring that bumpers on new cars be able to withstand a collision at 2.5 m.p.h. instead of the present 5 m.p.h., for example, the commission expects to save auto companies and car buyers $300 million a year. But insurance claims and premiums may increase beyond those estimated by the Government. By killing a proposed Carter Administration rule requiring pharmacists to insert warnings about the side effects of prescription drugs, the Administration expects...
...staff, who nevertheless are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks. Never a flush organization, NPR can withstand some painful fiscal austerity, but the blows this crisis have dealt to the energy and enthusiasm that made the station what it has become, will be harder to repair. One former employee describes "a sense of real doom that NPR will never be the same again. That an era is over." The overwhelming listener support pledged in the fundraiser delivered a badly needed shot in the arm to the staff, but many are still disillusioned and angered by the events of the past...
...dearly held goals of the Reagan Administration has been to provide financial relief for parents sending children to private schools. But even the plan's most fervent supporters have worried that it might not withstand a constitutional challenge. Though the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld laws permitting states to provide secular textbooks to both private and public schools and to pay for transporting students to private as well as public academies, it has regularly struck down other forms of aid. Reason: since so many private schools are connected to a religion, most public assistance leads to a forbidden entanglement...
Alexander's attempt to withstand his restraints placed on him by his stereotypically devilish stepfather (Jan Malmsio) is vividly etched as the Bishop beats him while trying to defeat his rebelliousness. Throughout his trials to escape his stepfather. Alexander is visited--or rather haunted--by the ghost of his father--who, ironically enough, died while paying Hamlet's father. But Alexander never becomes Hamlet and his mother never truly becomes the deluded Gertrude. Instead, Alexander withstands his father's appearance, and his mother fights for her own escape. Through the semi-occult figure of Grandmother Helena's former lover...