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...Harvard Rules has a real flaw--and it does--it is that it plays into the very myth it claims to dispel. Are we supposed to be surprised at the sick way Bok manages to hush up controversy by buying off his critics? Why should Harvard be any better than, say, the University of Wisconsin? Or, for that matter, General Motors? Should Harvard maintain a higher standard of conduct simply because it is Harvard? I am perfectly willing to believe that the leaders of this University are more intent the on extending their own influence than in advancing the causes...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Telling Tales of a University Not So Liberal | 2/9/1990 | See Source »

...Quiet," says a retired railroad conductor. "Someone might hear us. Hush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...hush," says an elderly woman. "Zhao will return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

MIAMI VICE (NBC, May 21, 9 p.m. EDT). The high-style cop show that defined TV noir for the '80s ends its five-year war on drugs with a two-hour finale. The ending is hush-hush, but the network says Crockett and Tubbs (Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas) will make their "last stand together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 22, 1989 | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...obscure corner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), molecular biologist Norton Zinder strode to a 30-ft.-long oval conference table, sat down and rapped his gavel for order. A hush settled over the Human Genome Advisory Committee, an unlikely assemblage of computer experts, biologists, ethicists, industry scientists and engineers. "Today we begin," chairman Zinder declared. "We are initiating an unending study of human biology. Whatever it's going to be, it will be an adventure, a priceless endeavor. And when it's done, someone else will sit down and say, 'It's time to begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Gene Hunt | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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