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Chief Saul I. Chafin arrived at Harvard this June to head a University police department still reeling from the extensive innovations of his predecessor, former police chief David L. Gorski. The old chief resigned amid controversy over a year ago, leaving police morale at an all-time low. Most of Harvard's 42 patrolmen worried, with good reason, about the future of the force, and with that their own jobs. Harvard, they feared, was out to cut the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) down to nothing but security guards. Gorski's organizational reforms made many cops wonder whether their...
Though initial reactions toward Chafin seem favorable, the police officers are still hesitant to pass judgment on their new chief. Some doubt that Chafin will be able to change his predecessor's policies, simply because Harvard wants it that way. "What are we to think when, the night after Gorski resigned, the union officials are called to a quick meeting at personnel, where we were informed that they have adopted Gorski's policies?" Laurence F. Letteri, president of the HPA, asks. Skepticism remains...
...last week's ceremonies, President Guzmán briefly paid tribute to his predecessor for agreeing, in the end, to allow a peaceful transition. But he attacked the outgoing regime for its "moral decay." He promised to bring new blood into the government-and proceeded to do it on the spot. Sworn in immediately were three able and fairly young technocrats who will direct the country's battered economy: Harvard-educated Economist Manuel José Cabral, 41, as Finance Minister; Eduardo Fernández Pichardo, 41, former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Santo Domingo...
...plenary" session usually lasts no longer than 45 minutes. The delegations then break up into smaller, "postplenary" working groups over coffee, tea, juice, cookies and peanuts. (Warnke's predecessor, U. Alexis Johnson, instituted a dry rule in 1973, fearing that one drink too many during a postplenary might lead to an inadvertent breakthrough-or breakdown...
...intense new Pope labored in the shadow of his jovial, grandfatherly predecessor, Pope John XXIII. It was John's revolution that he inherited, with John's open, hopeful stamp of approval upon it. In the years that followed, the movement that John called aggiornamento, or modernization, became part of a revolution larger than John had foreseen-a tumultuous moral and social upheaval around the world. Both inside and outside the church, old values were questioned, traditional authority challenged...