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...crime movie was just one item in the dossier of this fascinating, hard-to-pin-down ex-pat auteur. And Dassin lived long enough to watch the fickle swing of fortune's pendulum over and over until the movement became almost routine. It was as if he were a character in one of his heist films: top of the world one minute, disgraced and disconsolate the next, but always angling for the next big break...
...initiative requires Germany's intelligence agencies in each state to compile a dossier on Scientology activities that might violate the German constitution. Their report will probably be presented at the next meeting of interior ministers in the spring and then delivered to federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who will have to decide whether or not to initiate a federal-level investigation. The Hamburg officials are hoping that in 2008 or 2009 a process will be initiated that will result in a federal ban on the organization, potentially freezing its assets and outlawing fundraising and recruitment - restrictions similar to those that...
...There's been little love lost between the BBC and the government since the 2003 clash over claims made, in an unscripted on-air exchange between John Humphrys and reporter Andrew Gilligan, that a dossier making the case for the Iraq war had been "sexed up." This led to a judicial inquiry after the source for Gilligan's story, government scientist David Kelly, committed suicide. Strained relations with the government probably did not directly affect license-fee negotiations, but add to the sense that the once-beloved Auntie Beeb has become the relative nobody wants to sit next...
...dossier eventually finds itself propped in front of an ad hoc committee convened solely to review the application. The committee usually consists of three experts in the field from other universities, two experts from Harvard (ordinarily from within FAS), the Dean of the Faculty, the divisional dean, and the President. For each candidate it typically takes at least two or three weeks to assemble a committee, after which the committee is given more time to review the dossier...
...Faust says that she believes more focus on teaching, as well as dossier-size, is needed when considering someone for tenure. “I think we do have to make sure that we provide teaching support for people who are great researchers to bring them up to the bar as good teachers,” says Faust, adding that it is also important that she “have sufficient information and ask the right questions about individuals who are presented to me for tenure through the ad hoc system...