Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nessen said he questions whether or not his personality traits suited him for the job with Ford because he said he is "thin-skinned and short-tempered," adding that "the role of the press secretary is to be a lightening rod, to soak up criticism that would otherwise go to the president...
Before he is confirmed, Keenan should renounce his ties to the RSKU project, and offer the Harvard community a complete explanation of his role in Iran. Barring this, the Overseers should dismiss the Keenan nomination outright...
...decade after 35 black students took over Mass Hall in protest of Harvard's $20 million investment in Gulf Oil Corporation stock, University administrators and the takeover participants themselves present vastly different analyses of the decline in activism among Harvard students, and the changes--if any--in Harvard's role as an institution investing over $1 billion in funds...
...role in the takeover played by this individual (who declined to be indentified by name and will be called "John Doe") was in one way unique: Doe was the only student of the thirty-five to enter Mass Hall after the start of the occupation. A tutor at the time, he recalls receiving a 7 a.m. phone call in his Claverly room from George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, informing him that black students had just taken over Mass Hall, and asking him if he knew any details of the protest action. The graduate student, who belonged...
Five years after his role in the takeover of the University's administrative center, Doe says he feels "schizophrenic" in his attitude toward his Harvard past. "I have my moments when I think this whole thing is an appeasement and that the only thing that I'm doing is helping a group of minority students develop bourgeois values to perpetuate an evil. And on the other hand, I think I see people that I know, in fact, would never have had a chance to have any type of professional aspirations unless we helped them," Doe says...