Word: derek
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Echoing the words of Harvard President James Bryant Conant '13 in 1936, President Derek C. Bok yesterday adjourned an anniversary celebration with a pledge that the gathering will reconvene...
President Derek C. Bok and the Nieman Foundation independently sent telegrams to Soviet officials this week, in an effort to help speed the release of jailed journalist Nicholas Daniloff...
Ellen P. Goodman '63, columnist for the Boston Globe, said that she thought the letters might do some good and certainly couldn't hurt. "Gorbachev doesn't get up in the morning and worry about what Derek Bok or the Nieman fellows think, but it's part of the whole larger sense of knowing that the community--and the journalistic community--is concerned and aware," said Goodman, who was a Nieman Fellow with Daniloff...
Insiders have nicknamed the president Derek "I taught Washington" Bok and attribute his influence to the number of lawmakers who have passed through Harvard, particularly the Law School. At a recent Congressional hearing on sanctions against South Africa, for example, two U.S. senators reveled in pointing out that Bok taught them at Harvard. And following Bok's testimony, the former students questioned him in a less than grueling manner...
...later turned out that Derek Bok asked Joan Bok to write the letter. Earlier last spring, however, Derek Bok said the letter had been written at her initiative...