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...During the tenure of my predecessor and my term as manager, we followed scrupulous accounting procedures. We documented every penny that came in and that went out," Fleming said. "The system had been put in place and what happened during the '93-'94 school year was in the context of a functioning system...
...context, this remark sounds critical of his parents, but that is not what Frazier means at all. It is rare in contemporary writing to come across the pure love he expresses for the people who raised him: his chemist father, who worked 37 dutiful years for the same Ohio oil company; his schoolteacher mother, who dreamed when young of becoming an actress and who still appeared in amateur theatricals when Frazier was a boy. He once saw her do Lady Macbeth: "I remember especially her lines about snatching the smiling infant from her breast and bashing its brains...
...problem with the staff's position is that it falls to consider the furor over the Foundation office in this larger context. This episode wouldn't be a big deal if Harvard had a history of being honest about race relations. But it doesn...
...Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) would like to comment on censorship of pornography in the context of Brad Edward White's recent column ("Porn for All," editorial, Oct. 5, 1994). CLUH strongly disagrees with those in the Harvard community who feel that Harvard should attempt to supress pornography...
...Whenever we win, we sing the song 'Ten Thousand-Men of Harvard in Latin and English," he adds. "In that kind of context, it becomes a very emotional thing...