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...past to excel in high school through traditional values of hard work, integrity, and maybe a little bit of homicide. She finally seemed to have succeeded, until Harvard, that bastion of snobbery, rescinded its offer rather then risk the bad publicity of having a matricidal killer within its ivory tower...
Bosnian government forces attacked a communications tower held by Bosnian Serbs outside the northeastern city of Tuzla, breaking a truce that began New Year's Day and was scheduled to expire May 1. After the Serbs responded by shelling Tuzla and another government-held town, Travnik, in central Bosnia, a return to all-out war seemed inevitable...
Schrecker, the Yeshiva University historian whowrote No Ivory Tower, says the Universitywas uncooperative in giving her access todocuments that were 40 or even 45 years...
...Ivory Tower, in some ways, isincomplete because of Harvard's policy. The book'ssources include heavily redacted FBI documents andinterviews with many academics who feel they werebetrayed by the University...
Marbury's reluctance was based wholly on theUniversity policy. Schrecker writes in a footnoteto No Ivory Tower: "William Marbury had acomplete file on the cases and, though he wouldnot show it to me because he did not want to goagainst the University's policy, he referred to itthroughout the interview...