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...detractors ended in a public relations nightmare. After three pro-divestment alumni ran together for seats on the Board of Overseers, Bok directed the governing board's president to send a much-maligned disclaimer to alumni. That letter, included in the offical election packet and signed by overseer president Joan T. Bok '51, criticized the pro-divestment platform, claiming that election of those candidates would substantially change the nature of the board...
...complaint said that a letter included in the official ballot mailing to alumni last spring constituted electioneering by the University because it urged alumni not to vote for the divestment candidates. The letter was signed by Joan T. Bok '51, then president of the overseers. But Harvard President Derek C. Bok later conceded that he had initiated the letter and that Joan Bok, who is no relation to the president, had only signed...
...alumni also charged that Derek Bok, who admitted his involvement in the overseers controversy well after the first news stories on the subject had appeared, practiced "constructive fraud" by not informing the Harvard community that he had asked Joan Bok to write the letter...
...many challenges in journalism is turning out serious articles about celebrities who say they served in Joan of Arc's army or strolled through Iran with Jesus Christ. "Free spirit," "flamboyant" and "controversial" are not really up to the task. In a profile of a well- known woman who insists that she has lived several times before, one journalese speaker came up with this deft line: "More than most people on this earth, she has found spiritual answers." In crime journalese, the top thug in any urban area is always referred to as a "reputed Mafia chieftain" and generally depicted...
...kind of surrogate Battle of the Long-Distance Pitchmen. AT&T employed Actor Cliff Robertson, who had earned a reputation for scrupulous honesty by blowing the whistle on a 1977 Hollywood embezzlement scandal, for a reported salary of $2 million a year. MCI riposted with Burt Lancaster and Comic Joan Rivers. Sprint was represented for a time by Psychologist Joyce Brothers. The campaign has also extended beyond the airwaves to local shopping malls and amusement parks, where the rival long-distance suppliers have even hired acrobats and clowns to promote their cause...