Word: grahams
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Commencements are largely family affairs; this year's graduation ceremonies produced signal variations on the homey theme. At Boston University, Chief Justice William Rehnquist presented a law degree to his son James, who had been presented with a daughter by his wife the day before. Democratic Senator Bob Graham confessed having had trouble coming up with a theme for his address at the University of Florida until Daughter Cissy, who would receive a master's degree that day, offered a suggestion: how to get a job. At Loyola College in Baltimore, a well-known husband-and-wife team...
Even insiders admit Harvard has been lax on this issue. "We've been struggling with this program. We would have been much better off as a university if we had instituted the [ethics] program five years ago," says Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison. "Harvard has not done as well as we should in this domain...
State Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge), who was a Harvard Loeb fellow says there are valid explainations for the negative views some politicians hold toward the University...
...Harvard is a massive university with international acclaim, dealing with world issues, yet does not deal with the community that surrounds it," Graham says. And when they do address community problems it is in a "very harsh way," she adds...
...Graham said that her experience at Harvard has given her insight into the interests of the University, and she says she will fight for the needs of the community because of Harvard's clear intention to "suck up everything around them...