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...experience to propose and effect bold and innovative economic policies that will help the U.S. avoid a deep economic recession.Given the urgent need for a candidate with these strengths, it is disappointing that Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers—one of the leading contenders for the Treasury appointment??is now encountering opposition from some quarters. Contrary to an undeserved reputation stemming from misguided impressions and misleading media reports surrounding his resignation from Harvard’s presidency, Summers is anything but a misogynist or a calculating bureaucrat. He is, rather, a brilliant economist and an effective...
Smith announced the appointment??which goes into effect immediately—in an e-mail to the faculty...
...presidential recommendation in well over a century, leading some observers to label the confirmation vote a “rubber stamp.” When the search committee selected Lawrence H. Summers in 2001, overseers said after the confirmation vote—unanimous in support of Summers’ appointment??that they played an active role in the decision. Houghton would not elaborate on the role the Overseers would have in choosing the next president. “They’ll be involved when the time comes,” he said. Several overseers declined to comment...
...appointment cancellations and no-shows makes squeezing in a visit unnecessarily difficult. Last year, 12,000 of 180,000 UHS appointments were cancelled fewer than 24 hours ahead of time or missed altogether. These “dinkas” (short for “did not keep appointment??) swamped—or, rather, didn’t swamp—the busy dermatology and mental health services, representing about 15 percent of all appointments in those departments. As a result, many students who need to use these services often have to wait longer to find an appointment...
...discuss a particular topic because another committee had already done so; unfortunately for the dean who said this, I was on the other committee and knew that it most certainly had not been discussed. At another meeting, a high-level University Hall administrator—who holds no teaching appointment??complained that she was alarmed at how “unnecessarily negative” we committee members were acting in questioning why nobody had informed us of administrative decisions relevant to our work. In one of the most shocking incidents, that same dean asked whether our committee would...