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...upcoming drop in hiring, Smith said that arresting growth is necessary so that upcoming projects, including expansion into Allston and improvements to pedagogy, can be implemented without running out of “resource headroom.”A FIRM HANDAlso at yesterday’s meeting, the Faculty voted on a rare motion to dismiss a student from the College. Such motions are tantamount to a permanent severance of ties with Harvard. A two-thirds vote by the Faculty is required to pass the motion, and the action can only be reversed by another Faculty vote. In most cases...
After failing to draw the numbers necessary to conduct official votes at almost a third of its meetings in the past four years, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) considered lowering its standards for attendance yesterday. Too bad old habits die hard. Not enough professors turned out to yesterday’s meeting to take a binding vote on the new measure, which would have lowered the quorum—the number of attendees required for an official Faculty vote—from one sixth of the professoriate’s approximately 700 members to one eighth. The development...
Backed by more than half of all white female Democrats, Hillary Clinton holds a six point lead over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, a new statewide poll by TIME reveals. When leaners - voters who have not firmly decided whom to vote for but are leaning one way or the other - are added in, Clinton's six point lead grows to eight points...
...There also appears to be a measure of deep anti-Obama sentiment in Clinton's Keystone State coalition. Roughly a quarter of Clinton voters - 26%, the poll found - say they "would be more likely" to vote for John McCain in the general election if Obama is eventually the Democratic nominee. By contrast, only 16% of Obama's backers report they would be likely to vote for McCain if Clinton emerged as the party's nominee...
Morgan Tsvangirai is leader of the Zimbabwean opposition Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.). His party won a parliamentary majority in the March 29 general election, and claims Tsvangirai also won the presidential race, beating Robert Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe for 28 years, with 50.3% of the vote. The official results have yet to be released, as Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) have demanded a recount. The state press is predicting a run-off between Mugabe and Tsvangirai, and a loose pro-Mugabe force known as the "war veterans" has begun a campaign of intimidation...