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...DECIDED that while Harvard must have certain standards for investing its endowment, it must not commit funds used to support education for political maneuverings in this country. He has opted for educational and national programs to help fight apartheid. He has backed his beliefs with time and money, and used his prestige to forward programs at Harvard and nationwide. This effort, which has lasted throughout his 15-year presidency and has increased as the crisis in South Africa worsens, is at least as honorable as the efforts of students and faculty at Harvard who pressure him to divest...
...that age group is the victim of a homicide. Across America, particularly among the underclass in the nation's urban ghettos, brother is killing brother in a kind of racial fratricide. More than 40% of all the nation's murder victims are black, and 94% of those who commit these murders are black. The 6,000 or so Americans who lost their lives because of black-on-black violence in 1981 alone rivals the number of black servicemen killed during the twelve years of the Viet Nam conflict...
...absentee ballots. Although three of the defendants have already been acquitted, the black mayor of Union, Ala., went on trial last week in Birmingham. The anger in Alabama's black belt is palpable. Randall Williams, a director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, contends that whites who commit voter fraud go unprosecuted. Says he: "This is clearly a one-sided investigation...
Golen says he hopes to cox for Harvard crew, although his concentration plans remain up in the air. "Every time I try a new course, I like it, so I don't want to commit myself too early...
...stricter enforcement. That has become a primary goal of the Reagan Administration, despite its repu- tation of being cozy with Big Business. In 1983 the Justice Department set up the Economic Crime Council, made up of top law-enforcement officials, to "target, identify, prosecute and convict" people who commit financial crimes. The result has been a shift in priorities for Government crime busters. In 1970 only 8% of the criminal cases pursued by federal authorities involved white- collar offenses, but that figure rose to 24% in 1984. The Justice Department brought 20 cases last year against insider traders, in contrast...