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What's at stake? The January 30 poll will elect the 275 members of a National Assembly. The Assembly will elect a new president and two deputies, and the three of them will then appoint a new prime minister who will in turn choose a cabinet. The prime minister and cabinet must be confirmed by the Assembly, giving Iraq its first democratic government since the fall of Saddam. It will, nonetheless, be a caretaker government, primarily responsible for drafting a new constitution by August 15. If that draft constitution is approved in a nationwide referendum scheduled for October...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, who participated in the forum along with Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, said last week that Harvard will appoint an advising dean and is likely to create an advising center...
...gender inequality in Faculty hiring demands concerted attention from the upper levels of the administration. Harvard’s notoriously secretive tenure process compounds what is typically a self-perpetuating problem, and setting the right tone from above is crucial. Currently, a department which has received permission to appoint more tenured Faculty draws up a short list of candidates, which is then whittled down by the recommendations of outside scholars and senior faculty. Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby must then approve of a tenure offer before the formation of an ad hoc committee chaired by President Summers. This...
Iraq?s first-ever election season got underway Wednesday, as the country?s electoral commission officially opened the campaign for the January 30 election - which sees 80 different parties and blocs in a race for seats in the National Assembly. Choosing the 275-seat assembly that will appoint a new government and then draft a new constitution will be post-Saddam Iraq's first exercise in democracy. That constitution will be put to the vote in a national referendum on October 15, and will then become the basis of new national elections to be held two months later. In something...
...optimism. He is feeling better, and the electoral reforms met his key demand: reducing the number of absentee ballots from 4% to 0.5% of the electorate, overhauling the Central Electoral Commission, and firing its disgraced chair. The opposition agreed that the President would no longer have the power to appoint his Cabinet, though he retains the right to nominate such key posts as Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Defense Minister. Few doubt that Yushchenko will have the votes to prevail, but he still needs to get people to the polls. So he urged the activists in Independence Square to begin...