Word: besserman
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...faster and more thorough dismantling of apartheid than they might have countenanced otherwise. "It was the feeling that the country had become a global pariah rather than the economic pressures, however substantial, which seems to have given De Klerk the green light for reforms," says a British official. Laurence Besserman, a Cape Town importer-exporter, puts it in more personal terms: "Even when dealing with old and loyal friends abroad, I always had a sort of Phantom of the Opera feeling. Now we can all come out of the shadows...
...Lawrence Besserman, senior tutor of Adams House, refused to comment...
...feel very close to Harvard and Adams House, and hope to keep in touch," Besserman, who has been at Harvard for 11 years, including three as senior tutor, said yesterday...
...Besserman, who teaches English 10, "The Tradition of English Literature," and English 200a, "Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Poetry," will be leaving for Israel in August, even though his contract with Harvard was not due to expire until the end of next year...
...couldn't have had a more patient or wiser senior tutor," Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely said yesterday. Besserman's departure "is good for him, not so good for us," Kiely added...