Word: wolff
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What a difference a few months make: South African Archbishop Tutu's candidacy for the Board of Overseers created quite a fuss among alumni last year, and both sides of the divestment issue took turns at dishing out the rhetoric. Robert P. Wolff '54, who directs the pro-divestment alumni group which nominated Tutu, often said Tutu's mere presence on the Board could force Harvard to divest completely from South Africa-related investments...
...Wolff quietly changed his tone this week when he learned Tutu would attend his first Overseers meeting tomorrow. South African investments are not on the agenda, so Wolff said Tutu would probably not bring...
...coming to make a push for divestment," Wolff said, adding that the bishop just wanted to prove he could be "regular overseer...
Either way, Wolff said, the archbishop wouldnot have time for much else besides the meeting...
...made quite clear to me that he wouldn'thave time this time to address students oranti-apartheid activists," Wolff said...