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...strength, Ashcroft lifted his head from his pillow, affirmed his support for Comey and refused Gonzales' request. Facing the threat of a mass resignation by senior law-enforcement officials, including Ashcroft, Comey and FBI Director Robert Mueller, Bush finessed a compromise that ultimately addressed the Justice Department's concern about the surveillance programs. The weeks of recent hearings launched by Gonzales' firing of eight U.S. Attorneys have pried mountains of discovery from the Administration about the dismissals, but Comey's recounting of that night offered a glimpse into the drama of dissent that took place long before Gonzales...
...Living Systems”, “Science of the Physical Universe,” “Societies of the World,” and “the United States and the World.”Several professors who voted in favor of the legislation expressed lingering concerns about details of the program.But former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who initiated the curricular review in 2002, encouraged professors to end the discussion. “Everything that can be said has been said, although not everyone has said it.” Kirby, an East Asia...
...again reared its head. In a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Science last week, Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 provided updated statistics that drew him to the conclusion that “grade compression continues to be a concern.” His evidence: Over half of the grades awarded to undergraduates were in the “A” range, a small increase from last year. Twenty years ago, only a third of grades were A’s or A-minuses.Before beginning a tirade about the need to reduce...
Members of the organizations expressed concern that the swift assumption that a large group of black people couldn’t possibly be Harvard students—and the resulting decision to call HUPD on the “trespassers”—betrays some students’ underlying prejudices about the acceptable race of the average Harvard student. In the ensuing e-mail debate on numerous lists, such complaints were dismissed as touchy and divisive by a disturbingly large number of people. That’s right, they pulled the “playing-the-race-card?...
...consciously or not, even you, the enlightened Harvard student, have some ideas about race and who does or does not “look like” your fellow student. Yet, rather than acknowledge any of this, in the wake of the Cabot incident, many people simply accused the concerned ABHW and BMF members of unnecessarily “playing the race card,” and bringing a racial component into a situation that clearly did not merit it. Some even expressed concern that discussion of this sensitive issue was too divisive, and would breed tension on campus that...