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...convention. People should understand that the information they get this way is middling quality--better than what their neighbor heard at the dry cleaner's but not as good as the New York Times. And Internet sites that aspire to the highest standards of traditional media (like Slate, where I work) should be held to them. But if Drudge claims only 80% accuracy and can make it over that lowered...
...lawyer Mathew H. Feinberg, that "The procedures applied at the Ad Hoc and Presidential Review violated fundamental due process and require your careful scrutiny." More specificially, Feinberg writes in the Dec. 5 letter, "Five of the six experts selected as Ad Hoc Committee members were not on the offical slate the Department [of Government] submitted to the Dean [of FAS Knowles]; all five 'new' members were people who were antipathetic to the published views of Professor Berkowitz, a fact that was known or should have been known to those selecting them; and some of the 'new' experts/panelists were...
...denied due process in any aspect of the process; hence, I have no basis for recommending to the Joint Appointments Committee that the matter be reconsidered." Like the fine piece of litigation that it is, her rebuttal consists of a good dose of semantics("the Department submits no official slate of members," italics added) and denial ("I could find no evidence to support your assertion that...committee members were known to be antipathetic to Professor Berkowitz's published work.") But as the letter serves as the official legal response from the University in a case that may very well lead...
...reality, Harvard must convert on these, the lighter games on the Ivy slate, if it is to contend with the nationally-ranked Princeton Tigers for the league crown and the NCAA tournament's automatic...
...power have the courage to make bold, immediate repairs. Hashimoto, the first Prime Minister in a decade to last more than 18 months, came into his second term last year boasting that he would reform the system or "explode into a ball of fire." He proclaimed the most sweeping slate of changes Japan has seen in a century, committing himself to a six-point program to reduce the size of government, liberalize financial markets and unravel the country's byzantine web of economic regulations...