Word: concessioner
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Putting the matter bluntly, the Corporation is attempting to bread a commitment made four years ago to the Harvard community and the Black majority in South Africa. In response to sustained mass student protest, the University agreed in 1978 to automatically divest its debt securities in banks making direct loans...
But some concession was made, and the reasoning advanced for making this change was invincible. The South African government has declared itself inalterably opposed to the dismantling of apartheid--a system of institutionalized segregation systematically stripping the country's million Blacks of their land and birthright, herding them like cattle...
An unearthly silence settled over Jerusalem. Israel's premonition of living in a friendless world determined on the nation's destruction was fulfilling itself. Israeli children were in mortal danger even while peace negotiations were going on. And yet in its crisis Israel behaved with stoic endurance. Golda, who had...
That move is unlikely to affect any specific University investments in the next few weeks, but it proves just how strongly committed the Corporation is to scrapping the four-year-old ban, the only concession ever made to students on the issue. Further, it suggest that only the angriest of...
The majority makes its one concession to common sense by arguing that America should preserve the option to sell arms abroad to nations such as Israel. But what makes Israel so different from other friendly Third World nations Israel is indeed an ally. And it was American arm, sales that...