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Drawing on extensive interviews with Coe's companion, Virginia Perham, Olsen details the rage behind the go-getter smile. The vaunted independence was in fact financed by parental handouts. Often impotent, Coe bragged of his sexual prow ess to Perham as if she had not witnessed his failures. He...
During the past few years she has helped organize more than 19 acts of civil disobedience among them the burning of President Reagan in effigy. She has been active in the national Organization for Women, and ran for president of that organization in 1982. The same year she fasted for...
At Harvard, as on other college campuses, the issue of South Africa and morality has been periodically and hotly debated. Is it right for an institution of higher learning to invest in corporations that do business in South Africa, a country that practices a legally institutionalized racism? In 1978 students...
Last year, about 19 students fasted to protest Harvard investments in South Africa, and seniors began the Endowment for Divestiture, an alternative fund to the Class Gift that will go to Harvard when it divests.
Neverthless, there is some coordinator-at Williams and elsewhere-among supporters of anti-apartheid actions. While advocates of divestiture at Harvard fasted last month. Several students at Williams also staged brief "sympathy fasts." Students at Columbia University also staged a candlelight vigil in support of the Harvard hunger strikers at...