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...York Times and the Boston Globe interpreted this remark as referring to the group of anti-apartheid protesters who blocked the entrance to Memorial Hall on the evening of September 4 and forced the cancellation of a black tie dinner for 300 and more of Harvard's wealthiest contributors. As one of those who locked arms in the doorways that evening, I should like to call attention to the ideologically prescriptive narrowness of Mr. Bok's notion of who is an insider and who is an outsider at Harvard...
...press has learned from experience that there are two kinds of expensive libel suits: the ones it loses and the ones it wins. Even meritless complaints can lead to costly court battles, a threat that can inhibit even the wealthiest news organizations. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court gave the news media important relief with a ruling that encourages judges to dismiss unworthy suits before they go to trial...
After a college marriage that lasted only two years, she fetched up in Cleveland, eking out a living out of the photography that had turned from hobby to vocation. Here she learned the values of being young, attractive and hardworking. Soon some of the city's wealthiest and most powerful men were hiring her to take pictures of their factories and commercial buildings. "What a lucky lady I am," she told her diary. "I can do anything I want to with these men, and through it all I like them." She saw the faults of her businessmen clients...
...most of her assets be placed in trust and used "in providing care for the needy" of the county where she and her late husband had lived since 1935. There was some irony in the fact that the county involved happened to be California's Marin, one of the wealthiest in the nation. Local officials, however, were quick to point out that pockets of deserving poverty did exist amid Marin's hot-tubbed sybaritism. But then the trust's sole asset, a 7% stake in the obscure Belridge Oil Co., was gobbled up by Shell Oil Co. for a whopping...
...truly reform the Clubs one would have to eliminate the displays of wealth and symbols of superiority which constitute the clubs' main appeal." What an extraordinary argument from one who remains a Harvard student, hates bigotry and lauds plurality. Safely ensconced as a member of one of the wealthiest and most exclusive institutions in the world, Mr. Grossman insists it is the Clubs' display of similar attributes that offends his moral sensibilities. He is not alone in this apparent contradiction. It is striking how many Harvard-Radcliffe students share his need to pay lip service to anti-elitism. Something about...