Word: thompson
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...soon be standing alone. Despite backing from Cohen and current Joint Chiefs chair John Shalikashvili, some military officers and even Colin Powell say that Joseph Ralston should back out of consideration for the military's top post. President Clinton may soon agree, reports TIME's Mark Thompson. "I can't see why the President would want to endure this nomination process. It promises unsavory televised hearings, focused not on military matters, but on personal matters. It's not as if Ralston is a popular figure or something. Nobody's even heard of his name until this week." Thompson notes Cohen...
Several sources noted that Thompson--a personal friend of Rudenstine and the only one of Harvard's five senior political theorists to vote against the Honig case at the departmental level--had several connections with the tenure decisions...
Connolly's letter, which is written in a mocking tone, is addressed to Thompson and suggests that someone violated the sanctity of the tenure process and that Thompson should serve as "Special Investigator" into the case...
...addition, Berkowitz wrote an editorial last fall for the New Republic criticizing the mainstream liberal values of a book co-authored by Thompson and Gutmann...
...Both Thompson and Gutmann declined to comment on the tenure earlier this month, citing the confidentiality of the tenure process...