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...national movements, leaders hasten to add, couldn't have gotten this far without constant pressure from student groups whom they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed they say the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparkled by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
...national movements, leaders hasten to add, couldn't have gotten this far without constant pressure from student groups, whom they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed, they say, the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparked by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
...outgrowth of the turmoil of the late 1960s, and early 1970s. In the early 1970s, the University was confronted with the question of how to vote on the increasing number of shareholder resolutions that were introduced in companies in which Harvard had large stock holdings. To deal with this spate of resolutions, President Bok established the ACSR in 1972. Its stated purpose was to examine each proxy resolution presented to shareholders of companies in which Harvard has holdings, and advise the Corporation how Harvard should cast its vote...
...response to this recent spate of ACSR votes, Calkins announced late last month that the Corporation would begin investigating the possibilities of prescreening companies. Earlier in the spring, however, Bok reaffirmed his 1978 South African statement that Harvard does not consider divestiture an effective way of expressing disapproval of the apartheid regime...
...worldwide picture is not entirely bleak. China, which suffered some kind of drought every year between 1949 and 1982, received a welcome spate of April showers. So too, the worst drought in Australia's history ended last March, when steady rainfall began soaking much of the country. As new seeds have been planted, optimism has flowered. But Australian farmers estimate it could take seven years to undo the damage. In drought-ravaged areas around the world, such problems would seem like blessings. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Dean Brelis/New Delhi and Gavin Scott/Rio de Janeiro, with other bureaus