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With a small but dedicated following, Mecham would benefit if Annetta Conant swells the G.O.P. field to six. She is a former Evanista who pushed the legalization of Laetrile, the crackpot cancer cure, and secured a letter from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (a fellow Arizonan) erroneously citing legal precedents for the Christian-nation resolution. The most recent entrant is ex-Congressman Sam Steiger, a rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and now electronic-equipment entrepreneur. He was convicted of extortion when he was an aide to Mecham, but it was overturned...
...then-president James B. Conant '14 of Harvard appointed Keppel dean of the Graduate School of Education. In that position he promoted the Master of Arts in Teaching Program and other innovations in teaching...
During that struggle, Harvard played an active role in supporting the effort to defeat the Axis Powers, according Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. Classes were accelerated to allow students to graduate early and join the armed forces. Harvard's president during the war, James Bryant Conant '14, played a large role in developing the atomic bomb. And the University had a special school to train administrators who helped run the American district in Germany after that country's surrender...
...best known name in the department is probably that of Conant University Professor John Rawls, author of A Theory of Justice. He doesn't teach many courses any more, but his book is on the reading list in a lot of the philosophy and Moral Reasoning courses...
Legal scholars pointed out that two of the opinions O'Connor cited actually do not promote the concept of a Christian nation. The embarrassed Justice said she regretted that her letter had been "used in a political debate." It was a weak excuse. Conant had stated that a letter from O'Connor would be "beneficial" since "Republicans are making some interesting advances in this heavily controlled Democratic area...