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...would be given to Harvard when it divested from its holdings in companies operating in South Africa. The Endowment for Divestiture allows us to express our commitment to Harvard by demonstrating the depth of our belief in the very values of justice and human rights, which have formed the bedrock of our undergraduate education. A contribution to the Endowment for Divestiture is thus both a gift and a meaningful message to Harvard. Attempts to portray the Endowment for Divestiture as a mere complement to the Senior Gift are fundamentally misguided. The Senior Gift supports Harvard's investment practices: the Endowment...
There is far more to the fascination with Reagan than personal esteem for the President, who, polls show, would have won by more than 3 to 2 had last November's election been held in France. The sentiment has sprouted from a relatively new bedrock enthusiasm for the U.S. and its values. Long notorious for their anti-Americanism, the prickly French have become more glowingly pro- American than at any other time since the early 1950s...
Jackson has staked out a new separatism in multiracial America, and it menaces the culture of our politics, for it challenges the bedrock faith of a nation whose secular theology is equality. Is America a nation of individual Americans or a nation of separate communities? If communities were to be given rewards and responsibilities distributed on lines of kinship, ancestry, skin color or religion, the Lebanonization of American politics might lie down the road. And then would come the Orientals, Caribbeans, Africans with other demands. Was ours a nation of separate groups? Or a nation of individual people clinging...
...grown past: flimsy roadside commercial buildings are regarded as significant folk design, for instance, and turn-of-the-century housing styles are now being absorbed into the postmodernist aesthetic. When Conservative Columnist George Will calls Rock-'n'-Roller Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.) an exemplar of bedrock American values, as he did in a column last week, who will deny that the country has become infatuated with itself...
...saying, "As we welcome this rebirth of faith, we must even more fervently attack ugly intolerance. We have no place for haters in America." He added: "As Americans of different religions find new meaningfulness in their beliefs, we do so together−returning together to the bedrock values of family, hard work and faith in the same loving and almighty...