Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...last summer, when Commonwealth Day finally announced that it was leaving the city, it was Tribe's name on Brooks' petition, more than any other, that drew attention to the matter. While the law professor was quick to repudiate his signature, the appearance lingered that the liberal, tolerant image of Harvard and Brattle St. was nothing more than a thin veneer...
...were the majority of the petition signers duped into lending their support to a matter about which they had been misinformed, as many contended? The answers to these questions are still far from obvious, and throughout a hotly contested fall city council race, politicians of all stripes--but primarily the city's conservative bloc--jumped on the school's departure for their own political ends. "Hypocrisy doesn't end with the Commonwealth Day School," read one popular banner displayed by the anti-rent control Small Property Owners Association...
...while the mayoral commission appointed to investigate the matter found significant evidence of bias, the City Council has yet to take any significant action to address the findings. Stanley Eichner of the Massachusetts attorney general's office says that the state is still conducting its own investigation into possible civil rights violations...
Since then, Austin has remained especially quiet, politely but consistently turning down all requests for interviews. Her only public statement on the matter was an open letter to the Law School community, in which she attempted to distance herself from Bell and his demands...
Unchallenged because junior faculty members still haven't a hope of advancement within the university. and because Harvard still feels no need to value teaching and advising--the things that matter most to students--in making promotion decisions...