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...other changes to appointment procedures, Kirby said that departments would be required to write an “internal interim assessment” for their junior faculty at the beginning of their third year at Harvard. Many former professors have complained that they were not given a realistic indication of their tenure prospects until it was too late...
...interim solution before the long-term renovation of the MAC,” Barro said...
...former chief constitutional consultant to the interim Iraqi government told students and professors yesterday afternoon that the lack of internal security and the question of where religion belongs in the state pose formidable obstacles to the formation of a federal government in Iraq...
After three months of searching, the top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq has come back with news that all sides are using as an occasion for "I told you so." In an interim report to Congress, David Kay said his 1,200-member inspection team had "not yet found stocks" of illicit weapons--no large caches of poison gas or germ agents, no proof that Saddam was remotely close to reconstituting a nuclear program and no evidence of an attempt to buy uranium from Africa. In fact, the report said an African country had offered uranium to Iraq, but Saddam...
...third path is suggested by Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: a snap election to create an interim parliament. "The candidates would run on national lists and be elected by proportional representation. The likely result would be a coalition government, which would then have three years to write a constitution and create a permanent government." The risks of such a scheme are obvious: radicals tend to do best in premature elections, and a large, continuing American military presence and real humanitarian and financial support from the U.N. would still be required. The advantage would be an elected...