Word: baum
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...Great Mouse Detective is aimed at children and their indulgent parents, Labyrinth (written by Monty Python's Terry Jones) means to beguile precocious adolescents of all ages. With nods to L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz) and Children's Author Maurice Sendak, Labyrinth lures a modern Dorothy Gale out of the drab Kansas of real life into a land where the wild things are: deaf-and-dumb doorknobs, feral party animals that toss their heads like volleyballs, a terrier-faced knight and his sheep-dog steed, a silly sage with a talking bird growing out of his head...
Shaw said such extensions are fairly common and that granting Baum's request was not the result of a specific bargain...
...Baum resigned in March after more than a decade of work here "citing the appearance of corruption" by Johnson, Peter S. Stevens, director of the Medical School architectural planning office, has said. Stevens, who supervised Baum and worked under Johnson, said Baum reviewed contract bids and Johnson had final authority on the awards...
...Both Baum and Johnson have repeatedly refused comment on the suit. Harvard Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, who Stevens and Shaw said conducted an internal investigation, also refused to comment...
Stevens said it was "probable" that Baum supported or recommended a bid to renovate the D Annex which was priced lower than the $363,000 contract awarded in February to William A. Berry and Son, Inc. of Danvers...