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...numerous constituent services he provides Massachusetts’ citizens to Kerry’s office. Kennedy should also help Kerry take the lead in crafting legislation that will funnel federal money back into the State. In the past, pork barrel politics have largely fallen within Kennedy’s purview...
...Sundquist, however, is uncomfortable with the mere mention of future political aspirations. He downplays the notion of any present presidential ambitions. “Anyone who’s on the UC could be doubted,” he says. “It’s within my purview as vice president to get together and work with student groups to do things that could be perceived as maneuvering to be UC president. And I’m not going to change who I am or what I should do as vice president just because people are skeptical...
This would not be all that bad for undergraduates if Harvard College was its own tub and the dean of the College reported directly to the president, as is the case at nearly every other university in the country. At Harvard, however, the College is fully under the purview of the FAS dean, who controls every aspect of the College’s budget and lords over and selects the relatively weak dean of the College...
...Like the three-year-old Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), the department will be focusing in large part on stem-cell biology. But the new department will have a somewhat different purview, including the instruction of undergraduates...
Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles said the move to transfer Mass. Hall from the purview of FAS to the central administration came in response to the growing needs of the expanding offices of the president and provost after former President Neil L. Rudenstine reinstated the provost’s position...