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...huge cloud of dust and smoke began to rise above a three-story structure whose ganglia lay exposed and bare. In the street outside, a Christian Phalangist member of the Lebanese parliament raised his hand to his mouth and cried "Ya Allah![My God!] That's the Kata'eb...
...fall, winter and spring, and finally spit out a speaker. How did it work in 1980-81? A little differently from most years because of the presidential intervention, but it's ad hoc in any case. "I don't think there's an exact science," Henry G. Van der Eb '42, who as president of the AHA had a major say in the selection, says. "It's an evolving, rolling process." While primary responsibility rests with the AHA, the informal consultating process and the tentative feelers that are extended to potential speakers can go through any number of channels, depending...
...most years, the thinking on the question of a speaker gets going early in the academic year. Aloian recalls that last fall he, Van der Eb and Fred F. Glimp, vice president for alumni affairs and development--the Mass Hall representative--began discussing topics and speakers and comparing lists of about 30-35 names each. Van der Eb, a business executive from Chicago, was the one to include Watson on his list. "I was hoping for a leading businessman with qualities beyond the qualities of business," recalls Van der Eb. "I felt that with the advent...
...speaker had narrowed in on Watson; he was invited in March and accepted in early April, Aloian said. But the apparent interest from Reagan added a whole new element. "I personally feel that if the president wants to speak at a university, he should be able to," Van der Eb said. If Reagan wished to speak at Harvard, it was clear, he would be welcomed: Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the Kennedy School, has had an open invitation to Reagan since he became president. But the only appropriate place at Harvard on Commencement Day was at the afternoon...
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