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Saying the pro-divestment slate is the first to campaign actively for a specific issue, overseers President Joan T. Bok '51 said: "The issue at stake is not one that should be resolved casually or decided by a small minority of Harvard graduates...
...Board of Overseers were to become a body made up of members elected primarily to press a particular policy, it would be a very different Board than it has been heretofore," Joan Bok said in her letter...
Moreover, the Governor appeared to be unaware of the new budget estimate. When questioned by Boston Globe State House bureau chief Joan Vennochi about the increase in the estimate, Dukakis said he had not seen the report...
Thomas Keneally, 50, is an Australian novelist (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith), playwright (Bullie's House), screenwriter (Silver City) and movie actor (The Devil's Playground). The subjects of his nearly 20 books are equally protean: Joan of Arc, the U.S. Civil War battle at Antietam, World War I armistice negotiations, exploration in Antarctica. His 1982 volume, Schindler's List, set off a literary tempest: although it told of an actual German businessman who saved some 1,300 Jews from the Nazis, the book was awarded Britain's prestigious Booker McConnell prize for fiction, eligible apparently because Keneally used novelistic...
...Marshall Field's in Chicago, hundreds of disappointed customers placed orders at $195 each for out-of-stock introductory kits of Glycel, a new line of skin-care products. In Las Vegas, caustic-tongued but delicate-skinned Comic Joan Rivers complained that the local Neiman-Marcus was out of Glycel supplies. In New York City, Maryanna Mangino was luckier; she managed to walk out of Saks Fifth Avenue with $300 worth of assorted Glycel lotions and potions. "I guess I'm hoping for something mysteriously new that just might work to get rid of wrinkles," said Mangino. "After...