Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time trying to stand on that block. In one of his first meetings with the faculty, Bok began to explain his view of the role of the university. From the back row came a whisper: "We are the university." Observers such as John Rosenblum, dean of the University of Virginia's business school, marvel at "how little power Derek Bok has" to deal with these baronial scholars. Bok acknowledges the situation: "Nothing works around here," he says, "without faculty cooperation." Cooperation is no easy thing to win in Balkanized Harvard, where each of the graduate schools controls its own endowment...
...Where do you go, Yooveeyay?" In Virginia, where I live and work, this is a vague insult to one's virility...
Inquiries by the FBI and the state police are under way in West Virginia. William Kolibash, U.S. Attorney for northern West Virginia, will impanel a grand jury Sept. 15 to probe possible murder conspiracy and drug dealing at New Vrindaban. Said Kolibash: "The Bryant homicide triggered the inquiry...
...worse time for the Hare Krishna movement in the U.S. (membership: about 3,000). Since the death in 1977 of Founder Srila Prabhupada, the sect has split into mutually hostile factions. The internal trouble was dramatized publicly last fall when a disillusioned devotee bludgeoned the leader of the West Virginia temple, Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada. The assailant is serving a 15-month prison term in West Virginia...
Bhaktipada, 48, who was left partly deaf and slightly lame by the bludgeoning, dismisses the West Virginia investigations as "absurd." He claims that Bryant began attacking the sect because he thought it had caused his wife to leave him. "He was vindictive," says Bhaktipada. Is there dissension within the Krishna temples? The guru concedes, "We have differences of opinion...