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...charge of irrelevance is especially curious in light of the fact that the Crimson had run a staff editorial on the previous day calling for Harvard to divest from Shell Oil. This editorial mentioned a Council resolution, passed week and a half before, which calls for divestment as well. It is difficult to conceive that the Crimson did not consider this, the subject of their own staff editorial, relevant. Spirit Week and related events may not enhance our relevance, but they have consumed relatively little of the Council's time, energy, and money this semester...
...Studies was relevant. Shuttle buses to the Yale game, and the Yale tailgate party, were relevant, or so the student turnout suggests. Our ongoing effort to examine the Core curriculum is relevant, as is our upcoming Concentration Fair. Our decision to support PBHA was relevant. Finally, our stand on Shell and Harvard's connections to the Nigerian military government was relevant, or so at least the Crimson apparently thinks...
Part of the Presidents' apparent shell shock could be attributed to pure exhaustion. They had been negotiating almost nonstop for three weeks and around the clock for several days before the signing ceremony. Part of their mood may have been introspection, a feeling of concern about just what they were doing and how it would be received by the most passionate combatants at home. It was inevitable that some diehards would consider the settlement, any settlement, unsatisfactory...
Neither side observes the truce, which required the Russians to pull back troops and rebels to hand in their weapons. The Russians regularly shell villages they suspect of harboring resistance fighters, and only a few villages have disarmed. So far, tens of thousands of soldiers, rebels and civilians have been killed in this conflict, and the number, once again, is rising...
Should that dark day become a reality, the tragic loss of human life in Nigeria shall dwarf the Rwandan genocide. Only then shall the international community begin to bicker about how best to alleviate the expanding human catastrophe. In 1990, Shell oil's request for police protection for its installations instigated the Umuechem massacre in which hundreds of villagers were butchered to death. Even at this moment seventeen more environmental activists face the death penalty. That is why we argue that Shell Oil is Nigerian blood...