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...searches begun for new faculty this fall will not be put on hold, and reviews for promotion within the tenure-track system will continue as scheduled, Smith wrote in the letter...
...contrasting responses mark an interesting shift in how the two Western powers are handling the ongoing economic crisis. Europe was initially lauded for its dramatic bailouts of banks and plans to reshape the global financial system. But in the past couple of weeks, as Obama has begun to outline a package featuring the largest U.S. public spending effort since the Depression-era New Deal, Europe has started to look like it's dragging its feet. (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...
...Whether or not the Dalai Lama decides to take that unusual step, he seems to have begun the succession process in other, more subtle ways. Senior lamas of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism now regularly attend the Dalai Lama's teachings. The Dalai Lama has arranged for the Karmapa, an important lama who escaped from a Tibetan monastery eight years ago, to be tutored in several languages, including Korean, an indication of a wider global role...
...Korn had just arrived on Monday, and he has just begun to meet with administrators across the University. And at this point, the members of the review committee and a timetable for setting recommendations have yet to be established, University spokesman John D. Longbrake said...
...liberals, financier George Soros, Progressive insurance magnate Peter Lewis, and Herb and Marion Sandler, who once owned Golden West Savings and Loan. All three benefactors are represented directly or indirectly on the CAP board. Since 2005, the larger group of wealthy liberals, known as the Democracy Alliance, has also begun to contribute significant sums to the effort. Rob McKay, the heir to a Taco Bell fortune and chairman of the Alliance, says that between 30% and 50% of the Alliance's 107 wealthy members have given money to the Center for American Progress, or its political offshoot, the Center...