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This editorial was written in April 1984, after the Pi Eta Speakers Club published a newsletter containing derogatory references to women. President Derek C. Bok and other administrators issued statements condemning the letter. Nine months later, the University cut ties with the Pi Eta and the nine all-male final clubs...
...family's wealth became an albatross. Havel was denied the opportunity to attend high school or college. While working as a taxi driver and then in a brewery, he pursued his writing and in 1963 saw his first play, The Garden Party, mounted in Prague. In April 1968 Havel traveled to New York to see the Public Theater's production of his second play, The Memorandum. Four months later, the tanks rolled through Prague, and one of the new regime's first acts was to censor Havel's writings...
...Keating siphoned off millions to sham corporations in Switzerland, Panama and the Bahamas have been filed on behalf of 23,000 mainly elderly California bondholders. During the two years that Lincoln stayed open after the five Senators met with San Francisco bank examiners who wanted to shut Lincoln in April 1987, the cost of paying off the S & L's federally insured depositors grew to more than $2 billion. Along the way, Keating sought the help of an astonishing array of Government officials as well as financial and accounting experts. To their current embarrassment, some agreed...
When Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley appointed a special commission in April to come up with a new city ethics code, critics dismissed it as a face-saving device. After all, Bradley had just narrowly won re-election after a campaign that centered on his alleged ethical lapses -- including his serving as a paid adviser to two banks that did business with the city. But last week the seven- member panel proved it was no rubber stamp. It proposed a code of conduct for city employees and elected officials that may be the most stringent in the country...
...sworn in last week, conservatives, socialists and Communists are for the first time ever steering the ship of state in unison. The new coalition, which is led by Prime Minister Xenophon Zolotas, 85, a former governor of the Bank of Greece, will remain in office until new elections in April...