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Watergate was the Waterloo of presidential truth. In 1976, 70% of Americans agreed in a national poll that the country's leaders consistently lied to them. This from a nation brought up on Parson Weems' smarmy fable about young George Washington's perfect truthfulness. Honesty has been a casualty in the eyes of Americans ever since. Today, Bok notes, the public sees a politician's clever dodge as no different from a big fat lie. We're defining deception downward...
Alumni/ae Bernard B. Fulton, III '91 Darryl A. Parson...
...Jacobs, Moon K. Lee, Daniel C. Ramirez and Wolf from Cabot House; Brian A. Lanman, Guy Maytal and Duy T. Nguyen from Currier House; Kathryn E. Shea from Dudley House; Alison V. Davis from Dunster House; Roy Astrachan, Ross D. Blank, Christopher P. Herzog, Luba A. Kobrinsky, James A. Parson and Nicholas R. Szumski from Eliot House; Katherine L. Bertone from Kirkland House; William W. BurkeWhite, Michael E. Ginsberg, Amy Ozols, Dana A. Remus, Sapna Sadarangani, Jiri Vanicek and Matthew J. Waterbury from Leverett House; Charlene S. Ahn, David W. Chiang, Willow D. Crystal, Ivan Chun Kit Ho and Joyelle...
When my thesis adviser came to a Cabot House faculty dinner with me, I caught another glimpse of Harvard's human dimension. I had known Professor Ted Parson of the Kennedy School of Government as a blindingly intelligent public policy scholar with an interest in ozone negotiations, but at dinner--when we sat with two of my blockmates and their professors--he mesmerized the table with discussion about everything from game theory to Austrian royalty to Richard Rhodes' latest book...
...have a wonderfully rich heritage, how do we use it to best serve the present?," Parson asks. "It is important not to be slaves to the preservation movement."CrimsonGabrielle Page WilsonThe Harvard Union, in an early photo, before the sides were added to the rotunda (top). Students lunch yesterday in the Union dining hall (right...