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Harvard’s Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst ’82—tasked with overseeing University finances amid an unprecedented economic downturn—will step down after less than one year on the job, University officials announced Tuesday afternoon...
...executive vice president, Forst was appointed to manage the offices for human resources, administration, and finance—which previously reported directly to the President. In his role, Forst quickly became one of the closest advisers to University President Drew G. Faust on the administration’s response to the economic turmoil, which has already led the University to make sweeping budget cuts...
...first to hold the post of executive vice president at Harvard, Forst said that he sought to improve the cost-effectiveness of the University’s operations by consolidating functions—such as office supply purchases—that have traditionally been handled separately at each of Harvard’s schools...
...Sotomayor's native Bronx. "The symbolism can't be overstated," says former New Orleans mayor Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, one of the country's largest African-American organizations. "There is a much greater sense of solidarity now between the two groups." Says Fernand Amandi, executive vice president of the Bendixen & Associates public-opinion-research firm in Miami: "Ethnic tensions won't be ended by one Supreme Court nomination, but the picture of an African-American President standing with a Latina Supreme Court nominee shows the groups coming together at the highest positions in the country. That...
...Veggie Day is not compulsory, says the city's vice-mayor, Tom Balthazar, because such a draconian measure would be impossible to enforce, even in environmentally friendly Ghent, a picturesque town of 230,000 where bicycles lay scattered against spired churches in the largest car-free city center in Belgium. "We wanted our goal to be easily achievable - it's not hard to skip meat one day a week," he says. "And we wanted it to be something the population could rally behind. If you give people the correct information about meat, it becomes an easy ethical decision." (Watch...