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UNTIL last week, Derek Bok and I had little in common. He set University policy. I whined about it. He had a neat spread all to himself in Massachusetts Hall. I shared a room in Leverett House with five guys renowned for their "trash art." He was quoted widely in the New York Times. I was just lucky to get my New York Times...
...this is just a minor discrepancy. In my three years at Harvard, I have never before felt so close to Bok--or "Derek" I now refer to him affectionately. So rather than do anything stressful such as worry about my own employment prospects, I realized that I owed it to Bok--after all we'd been through together--to analyze his options...
...Derek I know won't give up on his dreams. After a few high-profile tours of the league, a major advertising 'campaign (Bok knows basketball?) and a custom line of sneakers (Re-Boks?), the job will be his for the asking. Odds...
SUCH high hopes. When Derek Curtis Bok was named Harvard's 25th president in 1971, many hoped for the conciliator to transform the University. The New York Times called Bok "symbolic of the beginning of a new era," and even we called him the "ideal choice...
...Derek Bok appointed to succeed Pusey in 1971 was a good man with the right values. The Derek Bok who announced his resignation last week is not the same...