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Officials have emphasized that his resignation--and not the investigation--was one of the main factors prompting Fineberg to appoint the task force and request the review...
...taking positions that might haunt him in the presidential race. Gore, who remains the strong favorite despite Bradley's lead in New Hampshire, took a stronger stand than both his rival and the Clinton administration on the issue of gays in the military. He vowed that he wouldn't appoint any officer to the Joint Chiefs of Staff who didn't support the right of gays to serve openly in the armed forces...
...does lay out ambitious goals in some 30 areas where the networks can improve opportunities for minorities. For example, it requires each network to establish a recruitment program for minority managers and writers; to "make every effort to increase its promotional spending for minority shows"; and to appoint at least one new African American to its board of directors by Sept. 1, 2000. Some of the goals are vague and difficult to enforce, like a provision that the networks "cease any practice of ghettoizing 'black shows' whereby they are scheduled together on nights without white programming." That flies...
...understand that the answers to some of these questions might be several months in coming. As with any new organization, there are probably many procedural details that still need to be straightened out. And we are encouraged that Harvard is interested enough in undergraduate input to appoint students to the Trust committee in the first place...
Looking at the council constitution and bylaws, it appears that the president's only responsibility is to appoint committee chairs. But administrative functions are a large part of the 20 to 25 hours current council President Noah Z. Seton '00 says he spends on council business every week...