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This dilemma was evident in the November revelation that Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 had attempted to swap a $500,000 gift in exchange for University Officer status. The K-School, with only a small pool of alumni but ever-expanding programs, badly needed the money to bolster the school's loan forgiveness program. Administrators let the demands of fundraising overshadow Harvard's ethical guidelines...
...VisiTel units, a $400 device that looks like a TV with a 4 1/2-in. screen but also has a built- in camera lens and a cord that plugs into a telephone jack. Callers who pose in front of a VisiTel and push the button marked "send" can swap black- and- white "snapshots" of each other over the phone lines -- provided, of course, that the people they are talking to have the machine as well...
...that reason, Winfield had to be traded. George didn't care for whom, as long as Winfield was gone before the season started. How about Baltimore's Fred Lynn? Or Houston's Kevin Bass? A swap for Jerry Mathers as the Beaver...
...mischievous programmers and hidden within the instructions of a larger program. Like their biological namesakes, computer viruses are characterized by an ability to replicate and invade other software with which they come in contact. Thus they can be spread from computer to computer by unsuspecting users who either swap disks or send programs to one another over telephone lines...
...obvious that Allison was not ignorant of the swap until one lonely Friday night. The evidence repeatedly shows that the dean not only knew of the deal well before it was finalized, but also took an active hand in its formulation. This is not just an honest mistake, but another example of Allison's inability to reconcile the educational mission of the K-School and Harvard with his desire to bring money, power, and publicity to his fledgling school...