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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally ended in his indictment last May, had aroused suspicions that the Carters had illegally diverted family funds, including money borrowed from Lance's bank, to Jimmy's campaign treasury. The charges became so persistent that then Attorney General Griffin Bell reluctantly announced he would appoint a Watergate-style investigator. Last March he handed that touchy job to Curran, a cautious, scrupulously methodical former U.S. Attorney from New York, who also happened to be a Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Wayward Warehouse | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Isaac case also brings the disagreement over the Department's intellectual focus to light. Isaac charged, in a letter to President Bok in 1975, that the ad hoc committee which considered his tenure was told not to appoint Africanists, although Isaac's field is Ethiopic languages and literatures and church history...

Author: By Maxine S. Pfeffer, | Title: Back for More | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

...also called for an improvement in teaching. "We must put more emphasis on the quality of teaching. It is difficult to choose these teachers. We try to appoint people who are excellent teachers as well as excellent scholars. Over 70 per cent of teachers given tenure at Harvard come from other universities," Bok said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok Advocates Student-Teacher Links | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

...will that person have won? Depending who you believe, the Florida caucuses mean everything or nothing. The prize clearly isn't worth the fight. Voters are only selecting half the delegates to a convention that will take a straw vote. And the straw vote means nothing. State officials will appoint the other half of the delegates that appear at the convention. It isn't until March 11, 1980, that Florida voters have their own primary--the one that really counts...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: More Fun in the Sun | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

Julie Fouquet '80, chairman of the Undergraduate Committee on Harvard Shareholder Responsibility (UCHSR), said yesterday, however, that UCHSR will probably not appoint an undergraduate to the ACSR unless the committee and President Bok accept three reforms--democratic elections of all its members, the representation of workers on the committee and the opening of the committee's meetings to the Harvard community. The committee and President Bok rejected the reforms last spring...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Bok Appoints New Chairman For the ACSR | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

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