Word: mail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hall fears the public embarassment that would come from a formal Overseer vote for divestment and is willing to go to some lengths to prevent it. Two years ago, President Bok blatantly tried to influence the Overseer election by asking Overseer head Joan T. Bok '51 (no relation) to mail a letter to all alumni criticizing the campaign of three pro-divestment candidates. And last year, the University fielded an unusually strong slate of Overseer candidates in order to prevent the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid from winning any more seats. The victory of three pro-divestment candidates...
Despite widespread criticism, Washington continued last week to try to stem the spread of the epidemic by educating the population at large. Before the London parley ended, the chief U.S. delegate, Assistant Health Secretary Robert Windom, announced that the Administration plans to mail a new brochure on AIDS prevention to every household in the country later this year...
...began when he was assigned in 1983 to the FBI office in Omaha. A photograph of his children was defaced by pasting an ape's head over the face of his son. Invitations to office functions with the words "Don't come" written across them were placed in his mail slot along with other demeaning messages...
...some students, the whole process of registration seemed superfluous. "If we just pick up a packet and leave, why couldn't they mail it to us?" Christopher Chabris '88 queried...
That Judge Flannery chose to base his decision on fan mail rather than the criminal facts of the case, is no excuse to conduct a witch-hunt on Washburn supporters. Surely the Crimson is aware that it is common practice to write a judge in support of one's associates in trouble. The judges trying the insider trading cases on Wall Street are deluged with letters describing "pillars of the community," "major benefactors to innumerable worthy cause" etc. They've heard it all before. Such loyal support does not and should never be meant to excuse criminal behavior...