Word: rescinded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't have any problems. "We may be wrong, but we're never careless," Lewis maintains. "All I know is we admit people and they show up and live in dorms and are your roommates. Most people pay tuition. It works out okay," she jokes. However, sometimes Harvard will rescind an offer if something drastic happens post-decision. The most famous case was Gina Grant, whose admission offer was revoked in 1995 after the office learned of her 1991 manslaughter conviction for killing her abusive mother. Most instances are less lurid--plummeting grades or "a deeper problem we were unaware...
...officers of Justus Viatical, a Pompano Beach, Fla., firm, were charged with selling investors $2 million worth of fraudulently obtained life-insurance policies. Their lawyer calls the indictment a farce. And insurance heavyweights like American General and John Hancock Mutual Life have recently fought in the courts to rescind bogus policies...
Students will also be able to decide whether to rescind the council's March 13 vote to keep its extra funds at the end of the academic year...
Despite the contentious issue, Boni-Saenz's one-minute introduction was all the discussion the proposal got. A procedural motion to rescind, which would have re-opened debate on the bill, failed...
Alex A. Boni-Saenz '01 made a motion to rescind the ROTC bill passed two weeks ago. The bill, which endorsed stronger support of Harvard students in ROTC, drew fire from students who saw it as a tacit endorsement of the military's discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy towards gays and lesbians...