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Overseer Peter Wood '64, who was elected to the Board on a pro-divestment slate, also cautions against moving too fast to reinvest in South Africa. He says Americans are too prone to invest minor reform there with more importance than they merit...
...always interesting how if you look at the Bush Administration's reaction to Eastern Europe, he wants to be cautious," Wood says. "But in dealing with South Africa, all you need is a promise--they're not held to the same standards that we hold up to the Communist world...
...Peter H. Wood '64, who like Tutu was elected tothe Board on an independent, pro-divestment slate,agreed...
...high standard for all the Boardmembers," said Wood. "The fact that he would behere in such an important week in South Africamakes me proud...
...spare Yankee lines. The rarest pieces were handcrafted in the port cities of Philadelphia, Newport, Boston, Salem, Mass., and Portsmouth, Va., where rich patrons financed local artisans. These wealthy merchants, hoping to create heirlooms for their families, combed the Caribbean for the finest, oldest mahogany trees. The wood they found was dense and close-grained, unlike the spongy grain of the younger, forced-growth trees that are planted today. "All the great wood was used up in the 18th century," maintains Matthew Weigman of Sotheby's. The furniture crafted from the grand mahoganies is said to glow and "smile...