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Hoover was unforgiving: once an enemy, always an enemy. Perhaps his most loathed nemesis was "Wild Bill" Donovan, wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (the CIA's predecessor), who made the mistake of trying to take over the FBI's domestic surveillance operations for his own shop. Long after Donovan's death in 1959, Hoover continued to tell people, falsely, that his old foe had succumbed to syphilis contracted from prostitutes during World War II orgies. Eleanor Roosevelt made Hoover's hate list for having accused him of trying to build an American gestapo. In revenge, the director...
...Mackay-Smith '78 as Acting Dean of Freshmen. Like her office, she isn't a far cry from what came before. For as Mackay-Smith discusses her priorities and approaches to governing first-year life, one thing becomes clear: she is largely following in the footsteps of her predecessor, Henry C. Moses, who left Harvard last spring after a 10-year stint to become headmaster of Trinity School, a prestigious private school in New York...
Current students who are dissatisfied will have recourse outside the court system. President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours on a first-come, first-served basis beginning next week, and continuing on four other dates this semester. Rudenstine's predecessor, Derek C. Bok, did not hold regular office hours during his 20-year tenure...
...people at Harvard and in the surrounding community. They add that daily life in Mass Hall has gone on for the most part as it was under former President Derek C. Bok, and that the new president has work habits--arrive early, stay late--similar to those of his predecessor...
...people at Harvard and in the surrounding community. They add that daily life in Mass Hall has gone on for the most part as it was under former President Derek C. Bok, and that the new president has work habits--arrive early, stay late--similar to those of his predecessor...