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Last year's election generated controversy when then President of the Board Joan T. Bok '51 sent a letter to Harvard's 200,000 alumni warning them that the nature of the Board would be changed if "specific issue" candidates were elected. One of the pro-divestment candidates, Gay W. Seidman '78, won and was seated on the Board this fall...
...complaint accused President Bok of "constructive fraud" for his actions concerning the election. It was revealed more than a month into the election that Bok, no relation to Joan Bok, had asked the Board's president to write the controversial letter, which was included in the overseer election packets...
...Jane V. Anderson, who teaches psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, * contended that she was the model for Joan Gilling, a central character in both the book and the movie. Claiming that the film defamed and humiliated her by presenting Gilling as a suicidal lesbian, she brought suit in a Boston federal court. The 14 individual and corporate defendants included Plath's widower, the British poet laureate Ted Hughes, who sold the movie rights of her novel for $60,000, as well as the filmmakers and two television companies that showed the movie, CBS and Time Inc.'s Home Box Office...
...Plath into a homosexual relationship," she told the court in unwavering tones. Referring to other details in the film, she added, "I also never made any suicide attempts or had scars on my breast. And certainly I never hung myself." Precisely, said defense lawyers, because the character is fictional. "Joan Gilling commits suicide, in the book and the movie, and yet Jane Anderson is here in court," Attorney Alexander H. Pratt Jr. pointed out to the jury in his opening statement. "Obviously the character was fictitious...
These could be the lyrics to the life of Patti Rasnick (Joan Jett), a guerrilla soldier in the rock revolution. Patti's rifle is a Gibson guitar; her army is a Cleveland band she fronts called the Barbusters; and her enemy is Mom (Gena Rowlands), who drives Patti bats with her meddling, consuming love. Patti seceded from the family when she had a son out of wedlock. "I wanted something she had no part of," Patti tells her brother Joe (Michael J. Fox). Joe, the Barbusters' lead guitarist, is peacemaker in the Rasnick war, but sometimes he feels like...