Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boards historically averse to politics, albeit on an informal level. During the London raids at the beginning of World War II, Conant presided over an acrimonious overseers meeting. A president often faulted for stormy relations with the governing boards, Conant attacked those overseers who cautioned neutrality in the emerging conflict...
President Bok and educators throughout the country have also taken up the issue and are striving to define what role the University should play in the teaching of ethics. But the ethical education debate underscores a problem facing the entire country--a conflict over basic values and changing norms which transcends individual fields...
Currently faculty and officers are prohibited from voting in accordance with an 1877 Massachusetts law. The regulation apparently was derived from fears of a conflict of interest between the faculty and a Board which has oversight over tenure cases. This exclusion came into focus this year after the administration made what it said was a particularly diligent effort to purge ineligible voters from the rolls...
...routine counts for about 25 percent of their grade," Jones said, "but they also had to write papers on humor as a management tool, humor in leadership, understanding cross-cultural humor and the use of humor in managing conflict...
...Maybe deep down he was a troubled person indeep conflict with himself, of trying to provesomething and wanting to make a statement aboutBlackness in some ultimate sense," Alexis said."That kind of search for an ultimate truth gotconfused with ego gratification," he said.Photo/APKennedy School Professor GLENN C. LOURY,right, seen with his attorney last week in BostonMunicipal Court...