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...will be taught by a visiting professor next year in order to lighten the incoming chair’s teaching duties as he assumes his new role. Several members of the economics department interviewed yesterday said they supported Social Sciences Dean Steven M. Kosslyn’s decision to appoint Campbell as chair, which was announced to the department in an e-mail Wednesday. “My sense is that he will be very, very good at the helm, particularly with dealing with difficult problems in a difficult period,” said economics professor Claudia Goldin. As chair...
...discuss the possibility of merging some humanities departments to be able to let go of professors more directly.“The only way you can fire people who are tenured is to close the department,” Menand said.In the meantime, Smith is soon set to appoint six working groups composed of administrators and undergraduates charged with reexamining finances within FAS.Although the working groups will be making recommendations to the FAS administration, they will not have any decision-making power, Smith said. All budgetary decisions will ultimately lie with the divisional deans and with Smith...
...Congressional Quarterly story alleging Harman was caught on a 2005 or 2006 NSA wiretap offering to lobby the Justice Department to soft-pedal charges against two AIPAC officials. In exchange, Harman allegedly sought a suspected Israeli agent's help in encouraging Nancy Pelosi - then the House minority leader - to appoint Harman as House Intelligence Committee chair after the 2006 elections...
...Just next door live residents whose voices, unlike Jake’s, do not get heard. They are the massive immigrant, non-English speaking population who have been left out of this process. Harvard did appoint an Allston-Brighton “task force,” but it filled it with better-off homeowners. Moreover, because meetings are almost exclusively in English, Allston’s poorest residents are left literally voiceless...
...order to uphold the rule of law, President Obama must immediately appoint a special prosecutor to investigate violations of both American and international law. Shielding those who perpetrated this American torture regime from investigation and prosecution—or, in the case of Jay Bybee, currently serve on the federal bench—would be a grave miscarriage of justice...