Word: namely
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...Monday the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government sent a letter to the school's dean. Graham T. Allison '62, asking that the name of the Engelhard Library of Public Affairs be changed. The following is an edited version of that letter...
...feel that attaching a name to a school, a building, or a library, clearly carries symbolic significance. The name John F. Kennedy evokes a spirit of public service which pervades the Kennedy School community and which the School seeks to instill in its graduates. At the Kennedy School of Government, the only school in the University to bear someone's name, names are unusually salient. Thus, we find it particularly unfortunate that the public affairs library of the Kennedy School has been named for a man who played an important role in promulgating a society whose values run contrary...
...killed, his memory has now begun to fade as well. Two years later, the asphalt where Bolles was murdered has been repaired, and the Clarendon Hotel, in whose parking lot the bomb blast occurred, has commemorated the event in a strangely appropriate if unintentional fashion--by changing its name in recognition of the unfavorable publicity the hotel received as the murder site...
...were on hand around the clock to file accounts of how it all looked--and smelled. On December 29, one of the paper's top columnists, Roger Simon, landed an exclusive interview with Dr. Robert Stein, the talkative medical examiner who by week's end was practically a household name in Chicago. Stein, who supervised the excavations, posed on the front page before a stack of sheet-covered bodies in Crypt One of the Cook County morgue...
SOON THE NEWSPAPERS were covering press conferences held by gay leaders protesting the bad name homosexuality was getting from the case. Other news conferences followed. Gacy had entertained young children as "Pogo the Clown." A spokesman for the Clown Guild called reporters together to declare that Gacy was not in the union, but rather "a free-lance artist." The spokesman noted that bookings for clowns in the Chicago area were down because mothers felt their children were scared after seeing photographs of Gacy in costume. On the whole, however, there was no real sense of city wide fear...