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...efforts to recruit faculty. To succeed, Harvard may have to reconsider its tenure process and the lack of a tenure-track for junior faculty. As new faculty members are recruited and tenured, the council must emphasize the importance of developing a faculty with the diversity of knowledge and background to fully engage Harvard's increasingly diverse student body--and that means making every effort to recognize potential women and minority candidates...
...released her first album in England in 1995, she angered both Tibetans and Chinese. Tibetan independence activists accused her of exploiting the culture; some protested outside the London office of her label Warner Records. Back in China, her songs became a sensation among Tibetans when they heard on the background track of her biggest hit the voice of a woman praising, in Tibetan, the current Dalai Lama?the government discovered the track two days after awarding Dadawa its equivalent of a Grammy. She had to recall and re-edit her album, and her videos are still banned in Tibet. Today...
...half-hour speech (delivered without notes) that was by turns funny, sincere, self-deprecating and boosterish, Powell tried to assure the pin-striped set that his military experience would help in an agency whose morale has plunged in recent years. "My background leads me to believe that the commanders in the field are always right," he said, to laughter and applause. Addressing the overseas audience, he added, "You're right, and those of us back here at C Street are generally wrong." He said the staff would be treated like professionals and held to high standards. If you perform...
...addition to attending the meetings, participating students will be asked to read background material and submit a two-page discussion of their reactions, which will be incorporated into the working group's final report to the provost...
Keeping this in mind helps explain why the pageantry of democracy surrounding Bush's address did not assuage the unease felt by many at entrusting the fate of our nation to an executive who prefers short work days and whose background does not seem to include involvement with the issues he is now charged to address. And while his inaugural may not have fully come to terms with the darker side of America, we can only hope his presidency will...