Word: respectable
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Only after the media began scrutinizing Harvard's electioneering did it become public that Bok authorized the letter. At a time when the University will need all the imagination it can muster to remain a leading player in an increasingly competitive academic marketplace, Harvard is no more anxious to respect the views of students or concerned outsiders...
...added that with respect totenant-landlord relations and Harvard development,some progress has been made. "Harvard has begun toset up channels of communication with thecommunity, and there is a new openness on the partof certain administrators," he said...
When the door to the plane opens, however, silence falls over the crowd. About five people disembark before he steps through the doorway, sporting a double-breasted grey suit and a tan. As the crowd watches in quiet respect, he greets Governor Michael S. Dukakis and his other distinguished hosts. The Prince listens politely to the band perform and walks to the waiting crowd where he stops to chat with a few people. One girl can't stop smiling after she curtseys. Another woman acts casual while in conversation, but after is agog at what has just happened...
...Everyone has some fascination with Harvard,but [the 350th] is not the most important story tomost of our readers," he adds. "A lot of peopledecided to do a big story on it, but we thought wewould take an offbeat approach...irreverentwithout lacking respect...
...growing up," he acknowledges. But after being cast as the Texas politician in LBJ, an NBC-TV movie to air next season, Quaid immersed himself in research that included taped interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, who is played by Patti LuPone. "I came to have this immense respect for the man," fellow Texan Quaid, 35, says now. "I could identify very strongly with his needs, with what he wanted out of life -- a certain level of power, authority. He was relentless." Did the old stand-up routines interfere with his portrayal? "They were sketches," he says. "An artist will...