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...write to express our dismay at the attempt by Meredith Bagley, Anna Baldwin and Emma Cheuse to draw the recent debate over women's diplomas away from the root issue of the relationship of Radcliffe to women's undergraduate education and polarize it instead around the person of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 ("Hasty Rejection," Opinion, April 6). The accusations made against the Dean are unconscionable and unfair. As supporters of the original diploma bill, we feel it is necessary for Harvard University and Radcliffe College to begin a re-evaluation of their relationship regarding female undergraduates...
This explanation, however, did not allay the concerns of some of those present at the event, at least one of whom expressed her dismay that such an error could be made...
...dismay of some Concord residents,few are familiar with these stories
...sales and profits. But not Lawrence Coss, the chief executive officer of mobile-home lender Green Tree Financial, who in 1996 surprisingly topped the list of highest-paid corporate leaders--overshadowing such titans as the Travelers Group's Sanford Weill and Walt Disney's Michael Eisner. Whoops! To his dismay, Coss may have to repay $40 million of the $102 million bonus he received that year because Green Tree now concedes that accounting errors led it to overstate profits. Says the taciturn and reclusive Coss of the financial revision, which included nearly $400 million of previously unreported losses...
...recent years, for various reasons and to the dismay of many journalists (believe it or not), this self-censorship has weakened. Politicians' sex lives have become fair game, though the mainstream press remains queasy. Now it turns out that the public may be up to the challenge of ignoring this stuff after...