Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While unusual, such write-in candidacies are not prohibited and have occured in the past. When the candidates publicly called for Harvard's divestment of South Africa-related stock, however, a University administrator sent alums a long, preachy letter about the mission of the largely ceremonial board. It not-so-subtly maligned the pro-divestment candidates...
...later turned out that Derek Bok asked Joan Bok to write the letter. Earlier last spring, however, Derek Bok said the letter had been written at her initiative...
...alumni also charged that Derek Bok, who admitted his involvement in the overseers controversy well after the first news stories on the subject had appeared, practiced "constructive fraud" by not informing the Harvard community that he had asked Joan Bok to write the letter...
...national media is not interested enough in this to look at controversies in-depth," says Brinkley. "As far as I can tell the media is doing its obligatory Harvard piece without expending any real energy so they do what the news office tells them to write," Brinkley explains...
...inseminator who had been eugenically selected at a "contact clinic." Fizzy, Moura's biologically tailored offspring, is the liveliest illustration of Theroux's future shock. He combines scientific genius with an arrogant and obnoxious mouth. He is also an example of postliterate man, a computer virtuoso who can barely write a simple message with a pencil. Yet Fizzy is young and, despite a hothouse upbringing, proves dramatically adaptable...