Word: medal
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Edwin Meese III, public official. Meese is currently doing considerable damage as the attorney general of the United States. It would be good to get him switched somewhere where he is farther away from the Constitution. Best of all, Meese could wear his Kennedy School Distinguished Public Service Medal...
...contact led to a major embarrassment for the school last spring, when Allison's decision to grant Attorney General Edwin Meese III a medal for "distinguished public service" generated widespread criticism from the Harvard community. Many scholars and alumni questioned whether the school could enjoy government contacts and still maintain its academic objectivity and integrity...
...contact led to a major embarrassment for the school last spring, when Allison's decision to grant Attorney General Edwin Meese III a medal for "distinguished public service" generated widespread criticism from the Harvard community. Many scholars and alumni questioned whether the school could enjoy government contacts and still maintain its academic objectivity and integrity...
...third controversy broke out just before Spring Break. Lawyers and public servants around the nation had a hearty laugh when Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 announced that his school of government would award Attorney General Edwin Meese III a medal for distinguished public service. Allison eventually was forced to apologize to students and faculty at the school for his unilateral decision to honor Meese, who quite clearly does not merit such an award...
...addition, senior administrators should not make unilateral decisions that affect us all as was the case with the Meese medal, when Allison ignored a faculty committee already set up to award the medals, and with the CUE guide, when Dean K. Whitla overruled the student editors...