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People will think whatever they want to think about you and Harvard no matter what you do about it. The key is to avoid getting pigeonholed. Harvard ought not to define your persona in 20 years—if these were the best four years of your life, then it’s a sad commentary...
...avoid using the word retiring. It implies that you’re withdrawing,” Hively says...
...easy way to avoid incurring deficits at the College would have been to call an immediate stop to new appointments and projects. But in saving FAS from deficit, such a policy would have catapulted it into intellectual stagnation. Small academic departments—where immediate and substantial growth is possible—would have been unacceptably damaged by a complete or “hard” freeze on hiring. FAS needs to remain financially viable, but penny-pinching cannot come at the far-greater expense of paralyzed academic growth...
...secure a regional airport. Democracy Beckons RWANDA Voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, paving the way for the first multiparty elections in four decades, to be held later this year. The text bans the formation of political parties that identify themselves along ethnic lines, in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people - mostly ethnic minority Tutsis - were slaughtered. Emergency Measures PERU A student was killed and 70 people were injured when police opened fire and used tear gas on protesters outside a university in the southern town of Puno. President Alejandro Toledo...
...Bush administration, expect a major crackdown on Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade. But those organizations are popular on the Palestinian street, and their elimination would require nothing short of a Palestinian civil war - an eventuality Mahmoud Abbas and his government are desperate to avoid. It's far from clear that Abbas could win such a war, with or without the support of Yasser Arafat. And if at the end the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza remained surrounded by Israeli settlements and soldiers, Abbas and his team risk being seen by ordinary...