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...Seven months have passed since former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 announced his intention to step down from his post. But Smith said that he did not believe the progress of the search for Gross’ permanent replacement had been unduly slow...
...served under three presidents, four deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, only one provost..but there was a lot of interim-ness,” said former GSAS Dean Theda R. Skocpol this winter, “so it was hard to make progress or big news on big pending problems...
...Pilbeam himself has acknowledged in the past that a lack of permanent leadership can hinder progress. Last May, while serving as interim Dean of FAS, Pilbeam said that he would stay on for as long as necessary, but that staying too long would be undesirable...
This is not to say that Indians in the States don’t have their doubts about Jindal; some do. For many, though, any qualms over Jindal’s neoconservative politics are overcome by pride in his brown skin and the progress this supposedly signifies. Unfortunately, this perception is mostly wishful thinking. Unlike the immigrant families I know who still proudly hang diwali lanterns and shop at the local Bharat Bazaar, Jindal has done the best he can to assimilate by erasing his cultural origins. Changing his name as a child from the Punjabi Piyush to that...
...before it began. When he reached the Senate, Obama had to deal with the awful reality on the ground: we had troops there; there was chaos. He proceeded to vote exactly like other Senators who had opposed the war-in favor of funding the troops, hoping for progress. As Iraq metastasized into a civil war, he began to vote for a responsible withdrawal. That Bill Clinton would turn this into an attack against Obama was almost as absurd as Clinton's turning Obama's statement that Ronald Reagan had changed the trajectory of the nation-and that, for a time...