Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announcement this spring that exiled South Korean scholar Kim Dae Jung, a former South Korean presidential candidate, would come to Harvard as a visiting scholar next year has refocused attention on the University's relationship with its frequent dissident visitors. Kim, who has had a standing invitation to the CFIA since 1973, says he chose Harvard over an invitation from Georgetown University because "Harvard is the great symbol of American democracy." Although some of his supporters fear for his safety while here--he was kidnapped from Japan by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1973 and sentenced to death...
...Throughout the year, students were forced to evacuate their rooms repeatedly when fire alarms--ten times more frequent than ever before--were set off by a new city-mandated smoke detector system. In a number of cases lingering repair work triggered the alarms...
...addition, many companies new disclose an unprecedented amount of information on the labor practices of their subsidiaries in South Africa. Several firms release periodic reports detailing their South African subsidiaries' wage scales, Black training and advancement programs and support for projects in the Black community. Frequent meetings with shareholders concerned over the South Africa issue have at times resulted in disclosure of additional information and have exposed management to alternative viewpoints...
Next the letter fell into the hands of a few unidentified go-betweens. Over the next four months, according to Aloian, two Western journalists with frequent access to Poland would carry messages between Harvard and Walesa, and at least one of them had a hand in getting Bok's letter to its destination. Another person actually handed the letter to Walesa. Aloian refuses to identify this last carrier, although he said in April, "It wasn't the Harvard Club of Gdansk...
...students as long as it wishes. Students will continue to march, hold candles, yell, and do strange things to John Harvard's statue as long as there is a University, but unfeeling comments and stances that smack of snideness reveal that Harvard continues to turn a deaf ear. The frequent, unnecessary clashes keep the Crimson front page supplied, but the underlying difficulty remains: If, as administrators agree, the University-student relation should be one of mutual responsibility, it should not be unreasonable to ask Bok and his cronies to show respect for what students have to say as well...