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...Mary Jo Bane, a former Clinton administration official who has been at the Kennedy School of Government for most of the past 25 years, will replace controversial professor Stephen M. Walt as the school’s Academic Dean, effective July...
David T. Ellwood, the dean of the Kennedy School, said he picked Bane, who is the Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, because in addition to being an “effective manager,” she can combine practicality with academics...
...student panel had requested. And they revealed they will soon hire a female associate professor, the highest-level female faculty member in the school’s history. Admirable as these moves are, they can only be first steps. Even with the hiring of Mary Jo Bane, the school still will have no tenured women or minorities. And this year’s graduating class from its Master of Public Policy program boasts only two minorities among its 60 students. Those are startling statistics about an institution that aims to staff government posts that themselves increasingly deal with affirmative action...
...Jarmusch protagonist: emotionally volatile, slightly anachronistic, and unwittingly seductive. Jack’s passionate, if rambling, lectures on the impossibility of true love in the modern age have graced the pages of several White Stripes album liner notes, and his intractable commitment to analog recording technology has proven the bane of many a record producer. Jarmusch plays into Jack’s atavistic tendencies by shooting the video in Super 8 stock, giving it the look and feel of one of Godard’s “Nouvelle Vague” films of 1960’s. Like...
...Brown, Secretary of Commerce --Eleanor Dean Acheson, Assistant Attorney General --Mary Jo Bane, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services --Federico Pena, Transportation Secretary --Donald K. Stern, U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts --Lawrence H. Thompson, principal deputy commissioner, Social Security Administration --Shirley S. Chater, Social Security commissioner