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...response to congressional attacks, IRS commissioner Fred Goldberg restructured the agency last January. While not punishing any of the implicated high-level IRS wrong doers, his plan calls for a presumably independent body, the Treasury Department's inspector general, to handle all high-level misconduct probes in the future. But the OSC is now investigating whether the inspector's office itself was involved in harassing the Chicago whistle blowers. Moreover, in August 1989, only weeks after Santella's behavior was denounced in congressional hearings, Treasury I.G. deputy Robert Cesca wrote a glowing letter recommending Santella for a top post with...
Although administrators and faculty membersdownplay the significance of the discrepenciesbetween high-level opinions on ROTC, thesedifferences could become important as theUniversity attempts to develop a coherent policyin the next two years...
Creative Metaphors. Since Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence announced his plans to head west for the sunny climes of Stanford University, speculation has been rampant in the local press that Bok will name Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye, Jr. to succeed him. Second-guessing high-level appointments at Harvard is generally a fruitless endeavor, but Nye did prove in an interview this week that he possesses a knack for bizarre turns of phrase that might come in handy in a major administrative post...
...There's a very substantive lag in the development of this policy," Maher says, adding, "you can shorten that if there are members of the Faculty in on the [high-level] discussions...
...meeting was the first ever between a high-level U.S. official and black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela -- and it was not quite all U.S. Secretary of State James Baker could have hoped for. After a 35-minute session last Wednesday at Mandela's villa in Windhoek, where both men were on hand to witness the birth of Namibia as a free nation, Baker and Mandela emerged to face a swarm of reporters and photographers. Mandela criticized Baker's plans to meet with South African President F.W. de Klerk in Cape Town the next day. "We do not think there...