Perhaps nothing in Donald Kennedy's distinguished career became him like the leaving of it. Last week the Stanford University president took a step that has become all too rare in modern American life: he resigned with grace and dignity under pressure. His departure, effective at the end of the coming academic year, is the outgrowth of the festering scandal in which the university has been accused of overbilling the Federal Government as much as $200 million for research expenses during the 1980s. But there was no smoking gun, no dramatic new revelation, no public ultimatum to prompt his surprise abdication after...
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