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Faculty members on the committee worked primarily to develop ideas and probe existing policy, while administrators provided empirical data and tested the feasibility of proposals...
...Tribe '62 and other Harvard Law School professors about their criticisms of President Richard M. Nixon's list of Supreme Court nominees. Within a month, President Bok and Dean of the Law School Albert M. Sacks write to the U.S. Attorney General, asking him to call off the FBI probe. 12 - Nixon announces increasing numbers of troop withdrawals in Vietnam. 21 - Harvard downs Yale in an embarrassing 35-16 win at New Haven...
...Student Council probe discloses $350 Red Book deficit...
...staid as presidential moneymen tend to be. He once wrestled an alligator for a $15,000 contribution. He invites reporters, including this one, to watch him do his thing. And he brags about his fund-raising prowess. Deposed by G.O.P. investigators during the Senate's 1997 campaign-finance probe, he called himself "the guy who jumps out of planes and falls through burning buildings" for political cash...
McAuliffe's sprawling network of friends is one reason he has managed to escape the legal trouble that has sometimes befallen other moneymen. His relationships extend to top Republicans who came to his rescue during the Senate probe of White House coffees in 1996. When G.O.P. investigators found alleged discrepancies in McAuliffe's deposition, sources say, allies of Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour persuaded Senate Republican leaders to take him at his word. It worked. McAuliffe wasn't even called as a witness at the showcase hearings held...