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Operational control of University Heath Services (UHS) will shift from Director David S. Rosenthal `59 to a newly created, six-person executive board starting later this month...
...leader of the al-Qaeda network, which is the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 atrocities. Bush demanded that the Taliban hand over all terrorist leaders to U.S. authorities. The Taliban has not done so, demanding, in turn, proof that bin Laden is guilty. If the Taliban does not shift from that position, a shooting war seems inevitable. Sources tell TIME that the first, secret deployment orders issued to the Air Force and Navy set a goal of having warplanes ready for action by Sept. 24. For most of last week, Pentagon officials worked to polish a war plan that...
...separate the last 70 years of Harvard history into three distinct eras. First, under the direction of University President James B. Conant 14 (from 1933 to 1953), the University transformed from the Brahmin university of the first third of the 20th century to a meritocratic one. Relying on demographic shifts and the detailed dissection of many of the controversies and developments of the 1930s and 1940s, the Kellers show how the University increasingly embraced the ideal of the best and the brightest, even when it came into conflict with Harvards tradition of catering to the social elite. The authors then...
...most convincing aspect of the Kellers thesis, and as a result the book, concerns the shift toward meritocracy. For many it is a matter of conventional wisdom that at some point Harvard decided to desnootify itself at least a degree or two and put excellence above family name. The Kellers present the story of how this change came about in painstaking detail. They offer a vivid picture of how the University functioned as these changes washed over it in waves...
...other foreign leader, but the onset of the intifada essentially made him persona non grata in Washington, and suicide bombing attacks emanating from areas under his control have sharply weakened his diplomatic support in the West. On the Palestinian street, the uprising has seen the political center of gravity shift away from Arafat and towards the radical Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and more importantly to the rank and file militants of his own Fatah organization who are increasingly openly at odds with their leader. Continuation of the current impasse is untenable for Arafat, because it inevitably results...