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...After four semesters of missed quorums and lightweight advocacy, the Assembly asked then-Dean of the College John B. Fox, Jr. ’59 to appoint a group of undergraduates and faculty to investigate the state of student governance at the College. Meeting 12 times in the 10 months following its foundation in May 1980, the Committee to Review College Governance—more commonly known as the Dowling committee, after Committee Chairman and Gund Professor of Neuroscience John E. Dowling ’57—issued its report in March of 1981. Among the recommendations...
...group with advocates in and out of government - have revived public calls for military action against Iran. Norman Podhoretz, editor of the journal Commentary, authored an article in the magazine's June 2007 issue, "The Case for Bombing Iran." And former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton told Fox News this week that "the only recourse is to dramatically ratchet up the economic and political pressure on Iran and keep open the option of regime change or even military force...
When Michael Baroody of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) withdrew his nomination to run the Consumer Product Safety Commission on May 23, Democrats cheered that a fox had been barred from the henhouse. But, they sighed, President George W. Bush had otherwise succeeded in turning government over to businessmen...
...HOMER AGAIN No longer a ratings powerhouse, The Simpsons (with its 23 Emmys) is TV's longest-running sitcom. Will the movie end its long yellow streak? Don't eat your shorts just yet--Fox can't be eager to fill a gaping, Homer-shaped hole...
...Baroody isn't that kind of guy. He's a policy wonk whose father founded the American Enterprise Institute think tank; he ran his own Republican think tank in the early 1990s before he was ousted for insufficient partisanship. His friends say the fox-in-the-henhouse caricature distorts a public-minded family man with 19 grandchildren. "Do you have a friend you'd trust with your child, or your grandmother?" said Dennis Whitfield, who served with Baroody in President Reagan's Labor Department. "For me, that's Mike Baroody. You think he's not concerned about the safety...