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...projects that cross faculty barriers, and we hope to see more such collaboration in the future. However, these projects are best left to the University president, who has the authority to carry out such projects without promoting rivalries between central administration and the schools' administrators. If Summers does appoint a new provost, he should clearly define and delineate the office's powers so as to minimize the potential for conflict with the schools. Rather than acting as an uncertain shadow president, the provost could carry out Summers' plans with confidence that the power of the presidency is behind...
...from assured. The House approved a similar measure in the last Congress, when it was certain the Senate would kill it. Would it do the same if it means sending a bill to Bush's desk? And if the two houses have to reconcile their versions, who would Lott appoint to the conference committee? If he sent McCain and his nemesis McConnell, the fight would just continue in a different theater...
...didn't sit on the Rules Committee, which had jurisdiction over the bill, so he didn't have a legitimate claim to sit on any committee that resolves differences between the House and Senate versions. To which top Senate Democrat Tom Daschle, appearing on CBS, replied that he would appoint McCain to the necessary committee - in one of the Democratic slots - if the Republicans refused...
...from assured. The House approved a similar measure in the last Congress, when it was certain the Senate would kill it. Would it do the same if it means sending a bill to Bush's desk? And if the two houses have to reconcile their versions, whom would Lott appoint to the conference committee? If he sent McCain and his nemesis McConnell, the fight would just continue in a different theater...
...Summers is known for taking people with him from job to job, so it is possible that he could appoint a trusted friend from the Treasury Department or World Bank to serve as provost...