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...Sissela Bok, Brandeis University professor of philosophy and author of Lying and other books on ethics...
...wedding was quite the Harvard affair, with a guest list that included the Derek C. and Sissela Bok as well as Radcliffe President Matina Horner. Reverend Peter J. Gomes, minister at Memorial Church, performed the traditional wedding service, which took place in the ballroom of the Agassiz House. About 100 guests were present...
...event, co-sponsored by New England Writers for Survival (NEWS) and the Cambridge Forum, featured several Harvard faculty members, including Visiting Professor Sissela Bok, Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox, and Associate Professor of Education Carol Gilligan...
While the rest of Harvard was starting to quiver with pre-350th birthday preparations, Bok spent one of his last weeks in August rafting down the Colorado River with his three children: Hilary, 27, Victoria, 24, and Thomas, 17. (His wife Sissela, a professor of philosophy at Brandeis and author of two well-received books, Lying and Secrets, normally accompanies him on such expeditions but had to go to Sweden to visit her ailing father, the famous sociologist Gunnar Myrdal.) Bok has always been an athletic sort of academician. A basketball star as well as a Phi Beta Kappa...
Like his wife, Sissela, a Brandeis philosopher, Bok tackles moral questions in lawyer-like debate. "He makes an effort to address ethical issues in a very public manner," Daniel Steiner '54, vice president and general counsel, says about his boss...