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...know he’s an extremely good teacher…but there is no way we can re-appoint him,” said Ropes Professor of Political Economy and Chair of the Economics Department Alberto F. Alesina. “Rules are rules...
However, we suspect that the University could have taken preventative measures in a more diplomatic and less severe manner. The University made several mistakes in dealing with Kanki that inflamed the situation. Officials at first attempted to appoint another researcher who had applied for the grant to co-manage the money with Kanki. They then compelled Kanki to report to an executive director who had little experience with AIDS issues in Africa. Though a new, expert executive director was eventually appointed, the damage was done...
Worried by the scope and size of the grant, University officials decided last summer to appoint an executive director—reporting directly to University President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman—to oversee the administration of the PEPFAR grant...
...Supreme Court considered one kind of ranting not long ago in the case of a North Carolina man who wrote two colorful letters to the President urging him not to appoint a judge named David Smith as U.S. Attorney for North Carolina. Smith sued the man for libel. The letter writer said that the First Amendment surely protected a citizen's right to send an angry letter to Washington. The court said no, a nasty letter to the President or Congress, even if sent in exercise of the constitutional right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances...
...Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, who has been John Paul II's chief theological enforcer. Tettamanzi would probably be the leading Italian contender; Hummes would represent a turn to the developing world where the Church continues to grow; and Ratzinger would represent a concern to appoint a pontiff capable of whipping the Church's vast bureaucracy into shape...