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Beginning today, GSAS students can vote anonymously on the same issues that resulted in a “lack of confidence?? vote in Summers at last Tuesday’s meeting of professors from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...while the GSAS vote may lack the fanfare of last week’s Faculty meeting, the motions outlined in the poll were taken verbatim from the motions put on last Tuesday’s meeting agenda. The poll asks students whether they “lack confidence?? in Summers and secondly, whether his remarks on women in science were regrettable...
...Great Britain recognized Tsang with its ultimate vote of confidence??Queen Elizabeth II knighted Tsang as Sir Donald in 1997. This honor came just after Great Britain appointed Tsang as the first Chinese Financial Secretary in 1995, after 150 years of British incumbents...
...Tuesday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) declared that it “lacks confidence?? in University President Lawrence H. Summers’ ability to do so. Since then, Faculty predictions about what the vote means for Harvard’s president have focused on everything from the probability of his resignation to the possibility of reconciliation. One thing that everyone seems to agree upon, however, is that it’s going to be a lot harder for Summers to govern if he stays...
...calls for Summers’ resignation) would be effective—except as a vehicle to sow more division. The very wording of the “lack” of confidence vote—as opposed to a less widely supported “no” confidence??suggests especially that this vote was more about divisive power politics than about the actual sentiment expressed. The Harvard Corporation was never likely to fire Summers—lack of Faculty confidence notwithstanding—and the best option from the start was Skocpol’s more conciliatory...