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March 9, 1988: President Bok releases a memo to the Law School faculty stating his decison, after discussing the matter with the committee, that a consensus has been reached that Dalton's "record was not sufficient to merit tenure...
...explaining the purpose of the committeereview, Bok said he thought the role of an outsideexamination is to assess academic merit, as if thecase had never been considered. "The committeeconducted its deliberations, and I arrived at mydecision without regard to the faculty vote oflast spring," he wrote in a press statement...
...dancing competition earlier in the week was a more predictable affair. As expected, the Soviets dominated, with three-time World Champions Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin claiming the gold. "B and B," as they are known, earned three perfect 6.0s for artistic merit from the panel of nine judges, delivering a theatrical long program that depicted the taming of a wild shrew. Heavily rouged and clad in garish black-and-gold costumes, the pair executed moves that were unarguably polished but at times bordered on the vulgar, particularly when Bestemianova repeatedly spread her legs and squatted...
...loving relative of Debi Thomas' could insist that the judges treated her unfairly Saturday night, but that was not quite the case two days earlier. As Thomas finished her short program, she clapped her hands together in triumph. Then came the scores and the boos. Thomas' marks for technical merit were high, but her grades for artistic presentation were much lower than those for Katarina Witt. Alex McGowan, Thomas' coach, held his nose in disgust. Later, McGowan seemed to accuse the three judges from East bloc countries -- Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Witt's native East Germany -- of protecting Thomas...
...also terribly complicated. When the French ice dancers the Duchesnays got relatively low technical-merit marks after their thrilling free program, the spectators howled. They did not understand that the judges must deduct points if the dancers execute a forbidden move. In ice dancing, for example, the prohibitions included lifting the woman above the man's shoulders and knee slides. In the pairs and singles short programs, skaters lose at least .4 of a point if they land their combination jump on two feet; a fanny fall calls for a .5-point reduction...