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...pension fund to get rid of $700 million invested with companies that deal with South Africa. He vowed to replace any pension fund commissioner who failed to carry out his directive. At the state level, Republican Governor George Deukmejian, who is also a University of California regent, did not commit himself to support a divestment either from state pension funds or from the university. But he gave divestment advocates hope, saying, "The divestment method might be a very effective tool in helping to correct the racial oppression that exists in South Africa...
...Dubuffet's career were all the more vivid for its late start. Born in Le Havre in 1901, he followed his father's trade as a wine merchant and (apart from one desultory spell as an art student in his teens, and another in the 1930s) did not commit himself to painting until after his 41st birthday. Yet by the end of the war, and especially by 1947 -- when he exhibited his riotously funny and touching series of portraits of French intellectuals and writers -- Dubuffet's work was not only an object of public scandal but also an essential part...
Here, too, Cap "the Knife" Weinberger '38 not his first taste of handing out marching orders (at The Crimson, no doubt) Hears Kissinger boned up on how to commit war crimes here. Let us not forget the Defense Department contracts Harvard racks up. It was here that napaline, which was used to murder millions of Vietnamese was developed by Louis Berser. And down the street, the National Security and International Security programs train member of the CIA. Marine Corps and other war-mongers giving them "crisis control" lessons to prepare for Central America invasions...
Most scientists are waiting for that pudding to be served before they commit themselves to the idea of periodicity, let alone a particular model. Says Cornell Astronomer Carl Sagan: "None of the explanations is anything like fully satisfying." Yet all but a few diehards acknowledge the brilliance of the Alvarez work. They believe the iridium layer and subsequent discoveries indicate that impacts of extraterrestrial objects may have played a significant role in certain extinctions, either directly or by delivering a final coup de grace to species already debilitated by climatic changes...
Thomas Mallon, the author of an original survey of diarists and a teacher of English at Vassar, points out that five million blank diaries are sold in the United States each year. Whether for posterity or therapy or peace, these diary-keepers commit to paper some version of their lives--great or small, public or personal. As Mallon's diverse range of examples shows, anyone's life can capture the reader's imagination if it is honestly and freshly told...