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...feeling guilty about her ’96 Toyota Corolla when she saw Al Gore ’69’s “An Inconvenient Truth” over the summer. Perhaps the campus’s most venerable Prius owner is former University President Derek C. Bok, the political scientist who served a second stint in Mass. Hall last year on an interim basis. He replaced economist Lawrence H. Summers, whose controversial leadership style was occasionally mentioned in the same breath as his choice of wheels—a black chauffeured Lincoln Town Car. His successor, Drew...
...some girls put their doggies in their handbags? Well, Drew does that sometimes. But I don’t know how to tell her that I don’t enjoy being stuffed inside her briefcase. 7) One time I peed in her office. I blamed it on Derek Bok. Drew believed me, and frankly I don’t blame her. 8) Mass Hall kids have scabies. 9) I have scabies. 10) I miss the old Drew, the one who would have slumber parties with me and put me in frilly costumes. Sometimes I think I don?...
DEFINITION bok-ser ri-bel-yuhn n. Term used to describe a surprisingly fervent movement by lawmakers to prohibit young people from wearing baggy low-rise pants that droop below the hips and expose their briefs or boxers...
...Following a year of temporary leadership by former president Derek C. Bok and former Faculty dean Jeremy R. Knowles, Faust asked her colleagues to forgive her and Michael D. Smith, the new dean of the Faculty, for their inexperience...
...silver keys, two seals of the University, the earliest College record book, and the Harvard Charter of 1650: these were the symbols of power transferred from former presidents Summers, Bok, and Rudenstine and Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 to President Drew G. Faust last Friday as she was officially installed. It was a formal, yet ebullient and optimistic day: one for reflecting on the forces that unite this great University and that will propel it to new heights in the future. In this context, the fiery speech that Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen...