Word: chairmanship
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...year-old Georgi, a bearded, august professor, might seem like an unlikely feminist. But if anyone has the heft to make change, he does. The physicist learned his scientific ABCs at the College from Nobel Prize-winner Julian Schwinger, won renown in the lab, and eventually assumed the chairmanship of Harvard’s physics department...
That same kind of easy stagnation has returned to the physics department now that he’s left the chairmanship. The changes he made, like the group of faculty he got to take on extra advising duties, are being “dismantled,” he says, and Franklin agrees that the department isn’t as aware of the need to bring in women. “He’s no longer chair of the graduate admissions committee, and other people aren’t so clear on this,” Franklin says...
...you’re looking for a bellwether for the Democrats’ post-election direction, keep your eye on Dean’s bid to be the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair. Not to say that Dean is the only candidate with a mind for reform, but his chairmanship candidacy is quickly taking on the same sort of reformist symbolism as his presidential...
...think one year from now, some things must be improved." THAKSIN SHINAWATRA, Thai Prime Minister, urging Burma to make democratic reforms before it assumes the yearlong chairmanship of asean...
...were sentenced to 12 months in prison. RETIRING. MICHAEL EISNER, 62, CEO of the Walt Disney Co. for 20 years; when his contract expires in September 2006; in Los Angeles. Although he is credited with transforming the company into a media powerhouse, fellow Disney directors stripped him of his chairmanship in March, when the share price and investor confidence slumped. DIED. NUHA AL-RADI, 63, Iraqi ceramist and painter best known for her 1998 book Baghdad Diaries, a vivid, witty account of life in that city during the first Gulf War; of pneumonia linked to treatment for leukemia; in Beirut...