Word: statement
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...week before the President resigned. Further, Ford writes, "I did ask Haig about the extent of a President's pardon power." But after being warned by Aide John Marsh that the mention of a pardon in this context was "a time bomb," Ford later read Haig a statement: "I want you to understand that I have no intention of recommending what the President should do about resigning or not resigning and that nothing we talked about yesterday afternoon should be given any consideration in whatever decision the President may wish to make...
THIS metaphor is at work in this University. The Corporation has gone beyond merely protecting Harvard from financial imprudence. President Bok generously states in his first letter that his opinions "are not the official views of the University." His statement is true. Bok may speak as an individual trying "to think through and resolve a difficult and important set of problems," but he acts as the head of the Corporation. He has effectively set himself up as the arbiter of moral truth for the University on this issue...
...this week, the ad hoe Committee on Gifts to the Kennedy School of Government released a draft statement on a proposed policy to do just that -- to review gifts and names of faculties for the school...
...complacency. There were too many unanswered questions dramatized by the Three Mile Island accident. The NRC would like to ignore the possibility of structural and design defects in the current plants. Wednesday, the NRC said human errors rather than mechanical failures were chiefly responsible for the Middletown problems. The statement is just the latest in a series of ever-changing assessments which have identified from one to three human and mechanical mishaps as causes for the accident. And each report cites a different combination of problems...
Rosovsky contends that undergraduates now enrolled should not expect a hand in creating courses that will affect only future generations of students. The shallowness of this statement becomes apparent when the logic is applied to the Faculty--some of whom will leave Harvard, some of whom will not choose to teach Core courses. Moreover, Rosovsky is implicitly denying that students have a valid perspective on their own educations. The Faculty created the Core Curriculum to replace the flawed and misdirected General Education program. As students under Gen Ed's sway, present undergraduates have a unique outlook on the program. They...