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...would be fighting his faculty most of the time. Yet, a cursory examination of the last three decades shows that conflict has been the exception—nowhere near a rule. Instead, Harvard history reveals that faculty-administration and inter-faculty dialogue has been conducted on an informal and ad hoc basis. This system has been both flexible and effective when there has been a high level of trust between the faculty and administration. There is no reason to change this paradigm because we had one unusual crisis...
More recent arrangements can seem more ad hoc. Tim and Susie Grade moved to Denver a year ago. They had attended cell groups subsidiary to Sunday services but were delighted to learn that their new neighbors Tim and Michelle Fox longed for a house church like the ones they had seen overseas. Now they and seven other twenty- and thirtysomethings mix a fairly formal weekly communion with a laid-back laying on of hands, semiconfessional "sharing" and a guitar sing-along. Says Tim: "We have some people who come from regular churches, and were a little disenfranchised. And people...
...long-building public sentiment to get tough with violent criminals, to kill the killers, seems on the verge of putting the nation's 15 electric chairs, nine gas chambers, several gallows and ad hoc firing squads back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and peculiarly American technique for killing, lethal anesthesia injections, which could increase public acceptance of executions ... For years, the capital-punishment debate has been sporadic and mainly intramural ... But now an old array of tough questions--practical, legal, moral, even metaphysical--is being examined. Is the death penalty an effective, much less...
...We’ll find some other academic responsibilities—teaching or something—that will replace her administrative role on the ad board,” Gross said...
Haddock was a co-sponsor of the bill to create an ad hoc student advisory committee to aid the search for a new FAS dean...