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...there is a more fundamental problem with using subsidiaries of multinationals to bring about radical change in a foreign country. Investment in South Africa is profitable because Blacks have the civil or political rights; foreign investment is there because of apartheid, not in spite of it. Preserving the political and economic supremacy that the oppression of Blacks gave whites--in plainer terms, retaining the present system as nearly intact as possible--is the only way to maintain the current high rate of return on South African investment. Anyone who exposes financial support of the present regime as a means...
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of Harvard's stance is that they continue to profess a desire to preserve Cambridge's socio-economic and ethnic and racial diversity in spite of threatening that already precarious diversity by buying up all the property within its reach each and by trying to circumvent rent control. Now that Craigie Arms is behind us, it's time for the University to end its charade...
...leaves the seductive on the chopping block, but the audience is lost to self-congratulation. "We're not all here," one particularly groomed young man confided to a companion while stumbling up the side at intermission. "We made it through the first act which"-- punning in spite of himself?--"is better than last year." Observers, noting the queasy rush toward the bathrooms, doubtless agreed. But the lure of the magnums proved difficult to resist; although the lights dimmed and then flicked frantically, hundreds of champagne-soaked feet remained planted firmly in the crowded lobby...
...flight to Mexico," Wynn recalls, "John Paul told me that he planned to visit the U.S., the first time this had been revealed. On subsequent trips, he gave me meaty answers about keeping priests out of politics and on his plans to visit Poland in 1983 in spite of the country's state of martial...
...articulate assurance of a stand-up comic. Hutton is just as fine in a role that demands--and gets --caged heat, the taste of a soul gone sour, sanctity imploding into rage. He and Penn are the only compelling reasons to see a film that is oddly engrossing in spite of itself...