Alan Hirsch of the University of Minnesota didn't want to revisit the FDA decision, and Harvard's Thomas Graboys said he had little to add.

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The seven members of the committee who made the decision include economists Robert Hall (Stanford), Martin Feldstein (Harvard), Jeffrey Frankel (Harvard) and James Poterba (MIT).

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Harvard University offered its first public explanation Monday for its decision to secretly search the email accounts of resident deans last fall in pursuit of the source of media leaks about a cheating scandal that was roiling the campus at the time.

WSJ: Harvard Explains Secret Email Search

After we made the decision that first night, I wrote an e-mail to two mentors, Bill Kirby, then dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Gregg Stone, managing partner of Kestrel Venture Management, informing them of my plans.

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