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...special slate of prominent government officials was overwhelmingly rejected by voters...
...admirable effort, but the question is going to come down to state regulation versus federal regulation, and I think there's going to be a lot of debate about it," said Thomas J. Dougherty, a partner in the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. "They're going to be in and out of court...
...year?"--John P. Reardon, Jr. '60, outgoing athletic director and new executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association, according to an Alumni Association committee member who asked not to be identified. Reardon was referring to the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) campaign for the Board of Overseers, whose slate of candidates this year includes South African Archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond M. Tutu...
...debate around the overseers election to a new low. He said that Tutu, who has for years called on Harvard to divest its remaining $168.3 million in South Africa-related stock, "has absolutely no interest in running Harvard." And he called those on last year's alternate slate, none of whom were elected to the Board, "second-rate' candidates...
Egan claims that his statements and help to Kennedy are simply responses to similar HRAAA efforts. Yet no HRAAA official or candidate has ever attacked any specific official candidates or slate. Though HRAAA has indeed politicized the Overseers elections by nominating candidates with overt political goals, it is Egan and other backers of the official slate who have reduced this year's election to its present mud-slinging level...