Word: joan
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...letter which was included in the official election packet sent to alumni said that voting for specific issue candidates would alter the nature of the board. The letter was signed by former Overseer president Joan T. Bok '51, no relation to Derek...
...matter what compensation you get, it doesn't replace a life, and it doesn't buy you health and happiness," said Joan Zona of Woburn, Mass., whose son Michael, 8, died of leukemia in 1974. The Zonas and eleven other families agreed last week to accept a reported $8 million from W.R. Grace & Co., ending four years of litigation in which they charged that Grace had dumped cancer- causing wastes on land near a Woburn aquifer, polluting two wells and leading to six deaths. The settlement, said an attorney for the families, was a "recognition by Grace of responsibility...
...points up the fact that somebody needs to help these girls with their painful decision to give life," says Susan Carpenter-McMillan of Feminists for Life. Pro-choice forces are singing back. The lyric doesn't "show what it really means to be 15 and have a baby," says Joan Coombs of Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile, the Material Girl has her own troubles these days. Her new movie, Shanghai Surprise, has derailed at the box office and rumors abound that her marriage to Co-Star Sean Penn is also off the tracks. Such uncharitable speculation is "not true," according to Madonna...
Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison Jr. '62 told a gathering of several hundred that the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy will tackle previously neglected questions about the collision of these important forces in society...
David Broder, a syndicated columnist and national political correspondent for The Post, shared his memories of Joan Shorenstein Barone, a Harvard Divinity School graduate who went on the work for The Post and CBS News...