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...Harvard, the only way to pop a mandarin’s administrative cherry is to appoint a task force...
...Early New England lawmakers imported the British practice of chartering committees to shut people up. In a crisis, one need only appoint a task force to study it, then watch the bureaucratic symphony take shape...
...made it clear he'd prefer embattled Senator Larry Craig - who pled guilty to disorderly conduct after Minneapolis airport police accused him of attempting to solicit gay sex in an airport bathroom - to resign immediately. That would leave a vacancy for Idaho Governor Butch Otter, a Republican, to appoint someone to serve out the last 15 months of Craig's term and preserve the party's incumbent advantage...
...have gone the prospect of reform this fall. To be fair, Gross’ interim successor, David R. Pilbeam has not completely dropped the ball on this critically important issue. In an e-mail to The Crimson, Pilbeam wrote that he hoped by the end of the term to appoint three faculty members to prepare a report on reforming the Board for his permanent successor. Yet this is hardly enough; we hope that the reform process will be fast-tracked so that students do not continue to suffer under a broken regime. Waiting for a permanent dean...
...name, streamline its responsibilities and bring it up to Cabinet level. This would show that the new President means business when it comes to national service and would recognize that service is integral to how America thinks of itself - and how the President thinks of America. And don't appoint a gray bureaucrat to this job; make it someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Mike Bloomberg, who would capture the imagination of the public. In fact, the next President - whatever party - should set a goal to enlist at least 1 million Americans annually in national service by the year...