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Overseers, trustees, administrators and students have talked about sexual harassment for more than a year. Yet the only comment President Bok could make ten days ago was that "it is not nice the first time it happens--to be called in and talked to by the dean and some sort of penalty administered and so forth" This is reminiscent of Assistant Dean of the College Marlyn M. Lewis '70's earlier comment that punishment is a "family matter" between the professor and the dean because, "We try to give instructors the privacy to recover." One wonders if the Harvard administration...
Western reaction was mixed. Asked to comment on the Polish situation shortly after the vote, President Ronald Reagan snapped, "I think it's horrible." At week's end he vowed to move as quickly as possible to suspend Poland's most-favored-nation trading status, which will result in increased import duties on more than $50 million in Polish goods sent to the U.S. Sharing Reagan's outrage, French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy declared that the union law was "yet another attack against individual liberty and the rights of man." He added that the law would...
...agent was sent in as a German-with a forged passport, of course. He adopted a false name, with the middle initial "H." At customs, an official stopped him to comment that it was strange for a German passport to use an initial rather than the entire name; he had never seen one like this before. He began to interrogate our man more closely, and the quick-witted messenger said, "Well, my parents named me Hitler as a baby. Ever since the war, I've been permitted to conceal my full name." The customs official winked and nodded knowingly...
While many scientists were reluctant to comment on Leder's unpublished findings, expressed optimism, but were quick to place the discoveries in perspective...
...THAT COMMENT seems to explain, in part, the appeal of the Joan Webster story. There have been front page articles in the Boston Herald American, prominently-displayed stories in the Boston Globe, several stories in the New York Times, and others carried on the national wire services. At this week's conference, about two dozen reporters, from print, radio, and television, bounded the Websters for "personal details" of their emotional trauma...