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Former University President Derek C. Bok said the school pursued Heiskell for its Board of Overseers because of his record as both a business leader and a civic leader...
...Bok said he and other University officials were surprised when Heiskell agreed to run for Overseer. At a celebration held for the new Overseers shortly after his election, Bok remembered the curiosity Heiskell began to show...
...when Heiskell left the Overseers to join the Corporation—Harvard’s most powerful governing board—the CEO and civic leader played a key role in keeping the Corporation focused on the most important issues, Bok said...
...Powell cited Harvard’s policies as a model in Bakke. O’Connor explicitly echoed Powell on this point, referring multiple times to the “Harvard plan” as ideal. She also cited a book co-authored by former University President Derek C. Bok and a study on affirmative action by Gary Orfield, who is the founding co-director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard, and Harvard research assistant Michal Kurlaender...
...Chung Hyung Keun, a conservative lawmaker and former spy catcher. Chung defends some of the NIS abuses, saying that too much focus on them has made martyrs of men like Kim Nak Joong, who Chung says was indeed a spy and accepted money from North Koreans. Adds Lee Dong Bok, a former intelligence official: "The agency is our last bulwark against North Korean aggression. It must be viewed by North Korea as a foe to be reckoned with...