Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, the authors of the letter attack my credibility directly by claiming I talked to no other individuals involved and made up the article entirely out of my own head. This is simply untrue. I have spoken often with many of the Harvard delegates, and I spoke extensively to students from other campuses at the conference. My view of the mixed results of the conference is a commonly-held one. As the letter's authors point out, 23 Harvard students went down to Philadelphia; seven signed the letter attacking my view of the conference's outcome. What do the other...
...meeting. I have spent nearly four years at Harvard becoming ever-more discouraged by the University's perpetual abdication of political and moral responsibility in its affairs, from its derisive treatment of the Afro-American Department to its equally disreputable labor relations with its own workers. President Bok's letter struck me as the crowning blow of morally-myopic ivory-towerism...
...representative of the North House Committee read a letter to the assembly last night explaining the reasons for the boycott. The letter states that the CDU's "party behavior has no place in our Student Assembly" and that "CDU members artificially have more power in the assembly than the proportion of undergraduates they represent because of superior organization...
...federal investigator as in it up to his neck," Alkek avoided criminal charges by cooperating with the authorities and pleading a weak heart (a condition that did not prevent a dove-hunting trip in Mexico). Alkek admitted knowing about and not reporting the fraud and destroying a letter that would have documented the crime. After plea bargaining, he was given only a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to refund $3.2 million of his excessive profits. The refunds will probably be deductible from his income taxes, say IRS authorities...
...nations, regard such discussions as academic. They know the joy they stir. Holland's "Brother Andrew" of Open Doors, the man who pioneered smuggling in 1957, tells of running a vanload of Russian-language Bibles into Czechoslovakia in 1968, surrounded by invading Soviet tanks. Later he got a letter from a mother in the Soviet Union: "Thank you for giving our son a Bible when he was occupying Czechoslovakia...