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...year-old Jordanian was being marginalized within the insurgency out of concern by other leaders that his televised beheadings of helpless hostages was alienating even many Iraqis sympathetic to the insurgency, and that his strategy of mass murder of Shi'ites in the hope of provoking a civil war was a road to disaster. Even other leaders of al-Qaeda had publicly questioned some of these tactics, while some of the more nationalist leaders of the insurgency who had been quietly negotiating with the U.S. and Iraqi government had made no secret of their animosity toward Zarqawi...
...only part of the College to eschew formal examinations for undergraduates. (Physics and chemistry, both subjects in the Scientific School, had mandated them). It was also the only discipline to confer undergraduate degrees besides the A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) and S.B. (Bachelor of Science) degrees—in Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Metallurgical Engineering. And even the S.B. degree in 1906 did not even require Latin or Greek for admission...
Until 1865, the entire Massachusetts state senate sat as ex officio members of the Board of Overseers. But since the end of the Civil War, alumni have elected new Board members at Commencement. Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, who would become president in 1869, at the time called the change a “happy liberation” of the University from state control...
...Summers’ tenure? Was it merely a vision unfulfilled?Summers banked his presidency on the assumption that his vision for Harvard was the right one. He aimed to implement that vision with an urgency befitting what would ultimately be the shortest tenure of any Harvard president since the Civil War. Pushing stubbornly as if each day might be his last on the job, that day arrived sooner than expected. With much work left unfinished—the conclusions of the curricular review hardly at hand, Allston planning still ripe for revision—the true test for the Summers...
...justices would immediately ask questions and use the lawyer as a conduit to have arguments amongst themselves as they asked rhetorical questions.” Under Roberts, however, Fallon said that the general perception is that “the questioning in oral argument is more restrained and civil, and it is easier for lawyers to get out their arguments.”Second, Roberts seems to be making a concerted behind-the-scenes push for greater unanimity on the Court. Of the 46 decisions issued by the end of last month, 30 were unanimous. In a commencement speech...