Word: dukakises
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Vice President George Bush called Harvard "the boutique of liberal ideas" this summer in the course attaching the "L-word" to his Democratic rival, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis.
Cantabridgians, from President Bok to Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, first actively disputed the notion that the University is a vast Democratic think tank united behind the Dukakis campaign.
And they raise another question. If Dukakis draws on a Harvard "boutique" for his ideas, as Bush charged, recent events have raised another question--what is the appropriate term for the many advisers within the University working for Bush in his bid for the White House?
In this election year, attention has focused on the Kennedy School, where Dukakis served as a lecturer between his first two terms as governor. And recently Bok and Allison have joined in the speculation about which K-School profs would join their former colleague should he win in November.
"Dukakis is relying too much on advice from Harvard," said Louie. "Harvard students are more liberal than most students in this country. The fact that a lot of Harvard students have leadership roles in the campaign and may have positions in a Dukakis administration--to me, that's a problem...