Word: laws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preceded by years of intensive study on the part of the Civil Rights Commission and various congressional committees. Each of these bodies had far greater resources than we do and faced a problem that was simpler, if only by virtue of the fact that federal legislation can override law and behavior but Harvard's writ does not run in South Africa. Detley F. Vagts Professor of Law...
...sure ARCO hoped (the naming of the Forum) could have some favorable impact on its negative public image." True, ARCO has been repeatedly charged with price-fixing and other "unethical" behavior; but, says Bok, "It's a little hard to make value judgements--to decide how deliberately the law was violated, or whether they knew about the law--before you accept a gift." Alas, Mr. President, ignorance of the law is not an excuse...
While President Bok's search for complexities is in the best intellectual tradition, there comes a time when even the most objective observer must wonder whether these ubiquitous complexities are real, or, at least in part, contrived. Luther M. Ragin, Jr. '76 Harvard Law School Class of '80 Kennedy School of Govt. Class...
Larsen cited Bok's gibe that women's groups at the Law School had demanded 51 per cent of the school's recruiting funds. Bok termed this "outrageous" and made a joke...
...anecdotes, Bok related how, as dean of the Law School, he was spirited off at 2 a.m. to meet with three student radicals--all wearing sunglasses and berets--in a dimly-lit room. Bok said they slid him a piece of paper--which would sign the recruiting powers--and ordered him, "Sign here...