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Harvard sought approval for the UOS move from the Allston community task force that oversees development on the University’s 100-plus acres there. The plans were exempt from the task force??s discretion but Harvard officials nevertheless chose to go through a series of meetings with the community...
Robert G. Stone Jr. ‘45, another corporation member who also retired last year, seems to be equally embroiled in this mess. According to Scott Sperling who worked under Stone at Harvard Management Company, Stone was “the driving force?? behind the Harken deal and Harvard’s other energy investments. Stone has a variety of ties to the Bushes including a father in law who invested in the elder George Bush’s oil drilling ventures in the 1940s and a brother who was the US envoy to Cyprus during...
...that would give him nearly boundless power to deal with Iraq as he sees fit, his so-called opponents in Congress have offered only the most feeble objections. The resolution would give Bush the power “to use all means that he determines to be appropriate, including force??to defend the national security interests of the United States against the threat posed by Iraq...
...don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which discriminates against homosexuals—was a necessary but unfortunate resolution to a situation that could have severely diminished the University’s ability to carry out its mission. The Air Force??s heavy-handed threat to recommend that Harvard lose $328 million in federal funds—16 percent of the University’s yearly operating budget—left the law school between a rock and a hard place. As Dean Robert C. Clark pointed out in a memo announcing...
...while Dean Clark’s candor in describing the difficulty he had making this choice is refreshing, the University should have challenged the Air Force??s interpretation of the Solomon Amendment, the federal statute in question. For the last decade, recruiters were allowed to come to campus when invited by student groups, but the law school did not sanction their visits. This mutually beneficial arrangement simultaneously allowed the law school to uphold its non-discrimination policy and permitted recruiters to maintain a presence on campus. Even temporarily allowing military recruiters to visit while the litigation was underway...