Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaking into a happy smile: 'I made the hajj [the pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim is encouraged to make at least once in his lifetime]. And I wanted all my Bedouin brothers to share and value it with me. So I drew this, and when I am gone it will be here as part of the village...
THIS metaphor is at work in this University. The Corporation has gone beyond merely protecting Harvard from financial imprudence. President Bok generously states in his first letter that his opinions "are not the official views of the University." His statement is true. Bok may speak as an individual trying "to think through and resolve a difficult and important set of problems," but he acts as the head of the Corporation. He has effectively set himself up as the arbiter of moral truth for the University on this issue...
...anyone who has dealt with the Harvard bureaucracy knows, many a brainstorm has gone out to sea in a tornado of red tape. Jackson also knew that if he didn't do his homework in advance, administrators would view his "boxing extravaganza" as nothing more than an unfeasible pipe-dream. After all, intramural boxing at Harvard had been banned in the early 1970s...
Amin and remnants of his forces were last seen Tuesday fleeing eastward toward Jinja, 50 miles away, in a convoy of limousines. Some reports said he had gone to Tototo, near the Kenyan border...
Harvard drew first blood early, as junior sensation Pete Predun scored the first of these goals on a pretty dodger play with only 45 seconds gone in the first quarter...