Word: derek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard is 350 years old and is throwing itself a party. And, oh what a party. Derek Bok on Time magazine, John Harvard on his own postage stamp, chrysanthemums are on the steps of Widener, and the special 350th seal is on just about everything else...
...protest of Harvard's investments in companies that do business in the former Portuguese colony of Angola. Alleging that the University investments in corporations such as Gulf Oil Inc. "facilitate the daily slaughter of Africans," the protesters hold a "mill-in" at University Hall in February. When President Derek C. Bok announces in April that Harvard will not sell its stock, 33 students occupy Massachusetts Hall, forcing the first-years who live there relocate to a nearby hotel...
Bunting-Smith worked closely with top administrators in the '60s and '70s for the introduction of coeducational housing, according to former Harvard President Derek...
...think it would please Dr. King greatly that we can sit here today as brothers and sisters," said Derek C. Araujo '99, chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Interfaith Forum...
Delighted at first, that is. Caribbean poet Derek Walcott, who won the prize in 1992, recalls a similar burst of joy followed by a prolonged state of siege. "The phone rang endlessly, and a lot of invitations came. It was a really terrible time, not terrible in a bad sense but terrible in how exacting it is. For a while you can't work, because it's so demanding." What Walcott characterizes as the Nobel's less than phenomenal influence on his book sales didn't make up for the chaotic fuss. What did soothe him, however, was the prize...