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...During the '80s, Harvard divested in South Africa and apartheid. Now, there is a growing class divide at home," said Jean Alonso '59, a member of Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni for Affordable Housing (HARAAH). The vigil, which was sponsored by a coalition of student, alumni and community groups, was the first of two demonstrations planned for December. A second vigil will be held at Holyoke Center next week...
...charitable giving in 1994 over 1993, but the figure includes contributions to cultural institutions and other nonpoverty-related causes. Giving for "human services," the category most closely associated with poverty work, dropped 6%. A poll by Independent Sector found that voluntarism, which also saw a boomlet in the late '80s, declined 5% in 1993 from 1991. In the same poll, 73% of respondents worried about having enough money for the future, compared with 57% in 1988. Says Smucker: "People seem to be more insecure about their financial well-being. And the more worried they are, the less they give...
...nightmare with a happy ending; a Rorschach drawing in fingerpaint--these are definitions of a Disney cartoon. Toy Story, though released by Disney, was not exactly generated by it. In the mid-'80s, Lasseter, a Disney alumnus, joined the Marin County computer lab Pixar and made three terrific shorts (Luxo Jr., Red's Dream and Tin Toy) in which he invested metal objects such as lamps, unicycles and drummer-boy toys with life and heart. These films, forerunners to Toy Story, ingeniously show that things have wills and wits of their own and exist in intimate relation to their human...
WRATH IS CURRENTLY THE deadly sin of choice. If you were left out of the greedfest of the '80s, you can now rage against the growing gap between the haves and the have mores. If your job has gone to someone younger, prettier or darker, don't get even...
Dime-store psychologists in Washington have tried to link Alma's much discussed clinical depression, which emerged in the mid-'80s, to the pressures of being the general's wife. Her family and friends sensibly reject the notion. "This is a medical condition that flares up and gets treated, the way a bad back gets treated," says Michael. "It's not central to her life." She is warm and outgoing, an attentive listener. She knows everybody but has just a few well-chosen close friends, most of them wives of current or former leaders of the defense or national-security...