Word: smith
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...decision, The Crimson has published numerous editorials and articles, a heated debate has developed on an Internet newsgroup, professors have been overheard discussing the decision and the president of The Crimson has met with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps and Secretary of the Administrative Board Virginia L. Mackay-Smith '78. Fifteen Minutes's strip "Roommates" by Joshua J. Schanker '98 has repeatedly mocked the Ad Board, and the Undergraduate Council has proposed two bills. Students I've never met have written me e-mails sympathizing with my plight, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) has contacted me about...
When I finally met with Dean Mackay-Smith, she was initailly very friendly. But when I started asking questions about the Ad Board, she told me to look in the Ad Board User's Guide. Her disposition changed dramatically when I told her I had already read the User's Guide from cover to cover but had not found the answers there. She then called her secretary into her office to sit next to her--presumably to remind me of her authority...
...another front, Crimson President Todd F. Braunstein '97 and an associate editor of FM, Michael R. Colton '97, set a date to meet with Dean Epps and Dean Mackay-Smith. When they arrived, Epps and Mackay-Smith said they could not talk about the specifics of my case; despite the fact I had just published an editorial describing the case in detail, they claimed to need my official permission. Of course, the deans had known of the meeting for nearly a week in advance and had failed to mention this requirement to any of the students involved. During this meeting...
What did this international femme fatale have that her rivals (often the wives of her lovers) did not? "Pink like a peach that you wanted to bite into," recalled an observer. There was the acquired Churchill name and a knack for what Bedell Smith calls Zelig-like appearances among history makers. There was also what friends saw as her "ardent femininity" and detractors called "the manner of a hot housemaid...
...extravagance. "My life has given me a unique opportunity to shop," she once told a fashion reporter. Forty years later, following a decade of big spending and bad investments, she was selling off prime assets from the Harriman estate to meet expenses. Her biggest fear, notes one of Bedell Smith's many loquacious sources, was that she might have to live on $500,000 a year. Priceless stuff! Reflected Glory is some piece of work about some piece of work...