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...flags quickly replaced the war as Campus Issue Numero Uno. President Derek C. Bok even joined the fray, affirming the students' right to free expression but urging them to respect the offended sensibilities of members of their community...
Some, including Gallagher, interpreted the club's inaction as a formal rejection of the party's nominated candidate. Gallagher jumped into the fray and succeeded in ruffling not a few feathers in the club. "I thought he was a Republican until the day I heard he was going to organize for Silber," Harmon, then president of the Democratic Club, says. "We talked to Colin and some of the students for Silber about working within the Club. They didn't say no, but they didn't really do it either...
...regime. Iran wants to build a $13 billion domestic communications system and aims to buy American hardware and engineering experience. Many European firms have already made bids for satellite contracts, but the Iranians extended the deadline in the hope that U.S.-based companies would be allowed to enter the fray...
...ending the fray is as much about staying out of the fray, explained one top Harvard official recently. If the Bok administration is remembered for its mediation skills, much of the credit, many say, must go to the lawyer behind the lawyer...
Harvard certainly has a wide range of views, and often this leads to the kind of intellectual confrontation that makes a university what it is. Traditionally, the Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats have stayed out of the fray, in order to avoid making campus issues into partisan ones. But the actions of one group on campus cannot go unchallenged...