Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent interview, President Bok said he wrote the letters, which "took an enoromous effort on top of everything else," to address the issues the community cares most about because it "deserves to hear the most thoughtful answers that I could give." Implicit in his remark is the assumption that all he owes the Harvard community is an explanation of his actions: we only need listen, he will provide the answers...
Kennedy dispelled the tension by assuring the crowd he and his family would stay to hear a spokesman chosen by the demonstrators. Mark Smith '72-4, the spokesman, said "the limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress...
Nobody left after the closing prayer. They stayed to hear Mark Smith '72-4 charge the K-School administrators with violating a moral obligation by honoring a man whose actions contradicted the philosophy of a school of public affairs. The protesters demanded that the K-School renounce its agreement with the Engelhard Foundation and return the $1 million gift. Students argued that since the University would probably not name a library after Adolf Hitler, it should not dedicate one to Engelhard...
According to the law, the prosecution need not prove damage to win a conviction, but any jury that might hear the case will probably be more sympathetic than the Justice Department. Wrote Atlanta Constitution Columnist Bill Shipp: "Bert Lance has about as much chance of being convicted by a jury in north Georgia as I have of winning the Irish sweepstakes. And I never buy a ticket...
...This year Misha was back to receive an honorary doctorate of fine arts. He very nearly did not make it, however. His plane was diverted to Bridgeport because New Haven was fogged in. Baryshnikov had to be rushed to the campus by police escort, arriving barely in time to hear Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti declare: "You have brought classical dance to millions as you made your grands jetés into their lives. With the courage of your conviction that artistic growth demands adventure, you have dared to let 'push come to shove' as you moved from...