Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thus I presume from my colleague Prof. Nadav Safran) which contained an editorial-page column from The Wall Street Journal (March 12) defending Safran in his dispute with the Harvard administration over his C.I.A. ties. This mail saddened me very much. It saddened me because I had hoped my friend and colleague Prof. Safran would take the high-road rather than the low-road in the aftermath of his dispute...
...slept through your last midterm, three irate section leaders are demanding papers or else, your best friend has abandoned you for his thesis, and it's pu-pu platter for dinner again. Oh yeah, and it's raining...
...Wellesley College student grill with my friend Rick, waiting for the bus to take us to the "March for Women's Lives." Many of the women at the grill weren't going on the march. Too much homework. They seemed slightly miffed that two Harvard guys were displaying any sort of social conscience...
...friend, Mary, passed around some examples of sexist advertisements cut out of magazines, showing women being hung, women in pain, breasts airbrushed into icecubes in alcohol ads. Others circulated petitions asking us to write our congresspeople. A girl saw me scribbling in a notebook. "Reporter," she said and came over to my seat. She was covered in buttons, and showed me a few. One said, "Pro-choice and I Organize." You have to organize to be feared, she explained...
Chen, now a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, became aware of the misattributions when he saw a copy of Mao's Unpublished Poems. "Not all these poems are written by Chairman Mao," he told a friend. "Many are mine." Chen called the apparent plagiarism to the attention of then Premier Chou En-lai, who was a defender of the people against Maoist radicals. Chou reportedly praised Chen for speaking out and immediately called for circulation of the work to be halted...