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Consider this comparison: When African Americans at Harvard protested for the revival of a failing African-American Studies Department in October of 1990, 150 protesters in front of Derek Bok's office chanted, "What do we want? Afro-American faculty. When do we want it? Now!" Three weeks later, 70 students marched to the Harvard-Yale football game in protest. Almost exactly two years later, in October of 1992, The Crimson reported that representatives of Raza, La O, and AAA were "mobilizing to pressure" the University and were considering "such methods" as were employed for Afro-American Studies...
...Corporation refused last summer to grant the former Weld Professor of Law Derek A. Bell an extension beyond the two-year limit. Bell was taking time off to protest the Law School's failure to hire a Black woman professor...
Bentinck-Smith served under presidents James Bryant Conant '04, Nathan M. Pusey '28 and Derek C. Bok. He earned the Harvard Medal in 1987 for exceptional contributions to the University...
...also director of the Center forInternational Affairs. His departure would be ablow to recent efforts at the internationalizationof Harvard, which have been lead by Nye and formerPresident Derek...
Three Olympic thrills. Gail Devers won the women's 100-m race 16 months after nearly having her feet amputated. That ageless sprite Carl Lewis anchored the U.S. men's 4x100-m relay team that set a world record. And in an inspiring 400-m semifinal, Briton Derek Redmond collapsed with a hamstring pull, then rose and, aided by his weeping father, staggered to the finish line. Amazing feets...