Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Graham vs. Thompson...
...been a long time since Harvard Commencement 1970, when Saundra Graham stormed the podium with a bullhorn and demanded new homes for people the University had evicted to build Peabody Terrace...
Peabody Terrace is weathered and crumbling now, and Graham has taken on the more diplomatic manner of a 12-year state representative and 18-year Cambridge city councillor...
...Graham's perennial opponent, city employee Alvin Thompson, is right to question her accessibility to constituents and to ask whether she can serve effectively in both state and local government at once. While others on the city council also hold two jobs, Graham's constituents must decide whether they want the same person to represent them twice. On the other hand, Thompson, whose political opinions are not far removed from Graham's, has yet to prove his political ability...
This dilemma was evident in last November's revelation that Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 had attempted to swap a $500,000 gift in exchange for University Officer status. The K-School, with only a small pool of alumni but ever-expanding programs, badly needed the money to bolster the school's loan forgiveness program. Administrators let the demands of fundraising overshadow Harvard's ethical guidlines...