"This is in every way a step back from genuine democracy."

--Robert P. Wolff '54, on the Young Report's plan to increase the University's role in selecting Board of Overseers' candidates (Crimson 9/24/88)

"Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."

--Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.) to then-Sen. J. Danforth Quayle (R-Ind.) (10/6/88)

"The Employer's brief is replete with misinterpretations."

--Administrative Law Judge Joel A. Harmatz in dismissing Harvard's challenge to last spring's union victory (10/25/88)

"The committee fround that substantial portions of [Dr. Shervert H.] Frasier's work were taken from other papers."

--Med School Dean of Academic Affairs S. James Adelstein about the former head of McLean Hospital, who resigned when his plagiarism was discovered (11/29/88)

"The real story was she was a pink baby. But occasionally she told people it was because of her leftist politics."

--Peter W. Galbraith '73, explaining the sobriquet of his classmate and Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir "Pinkie" Bhutto '73 (12/6/88)

"The University does not equal a microcosm of society."

--Ford Professor of Social Sciences Daniel Bell speaking at an open forum about minority and women faculty hiring (12/8/88)

"Post-modern thought is about to annihilate all past thinkers--from Socrates to Marx--more effectively than the barbarians after Rome and their Dark Ages."

--Allan Bloom, the best-selling moral philospher, speaking at the Kennedy School (12/9/88)

"I suspect that people just don't see the master as someone that [they] could go to talk about certain issues."