April 2, 1999
Derek Bok's New Platform
Twenty-eight years ago, the newly installed president of Harvard University, Derek C. Bok, opened his office to students who opposed the U.S. government's involvement in the Vietnam War. Observers credited his diplomacy and consensus-building skills with defusing the series of sit-ins that students had staged in the office of his predecessor.
At about the same time, a fledgling group in the nation's capital was lodging antiwar protests
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