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...outspoken Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has his way. Harvard will soon award honorary degrees in absentia to political prisoners and dissidents...
...Dershowitz and 13 other members of the Law School faculty last month asked President Bok to award honorary degrees to Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharoy and his wife. Yelena Bonner, both of whom are being held in internal exile in the Soviet Union Dershowitz also requested that Bok offer the Sakharovs medical treatment in Cambridge...
...proposals by Dershowitz, a staunch civil libertarian, run against a long standing Harvard tradition that it does not award honorary degrees to anyone who does not attend the Commencement exercises in Harvard Yard...
...June 5 letter to Dershowitz made public by the Boston Phoenix, said he would not be able to offer the Sakharovs an honorary degree just two days before June 7 Commencement exercises...
Even though Koppel doesn't call "Nightline" an "educational program," he says he's pleased that others disagree. "He and 'Nightline' make me think," Dershowitz concludes. "And that's not an easy thing to do at 11:30 at night...