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...alumni Board of Overseers have found cause to bring Summers to task.Moreover, when a governing body votes “yes” to a no-confidence motion, there exists a presumption that confidence can be attained once more. Yet the Faculty appears to be forever unsatiated. In his bid to regain its confidence last year, Summers appointed one of his loudest critics, Thomas Professor of Sociology Theda Skocpol, as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), and he established a new deanship to promote Faculty diversity. The Faculty, like the president, must be held to account...
...Glazer ’06, First Class Marshal Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06, Former Harvard Concert Commission Chair Jack P. McCambridge ’06, and Relay for Life officer Hannah K. Ahn ’08. Although the lowest bid was ten dollars, other bids were in the hundreds. Former Lowell House Committee Chair, Kaartiga Sivanesan ’06 set the record for the auction when she sold for the whopping sum of $282.“I was initially a bit hesitant to be part of a date auction...
...that that's the source of nearly all its revenue. What Google did was master the automation of online advertising, perfecting a model developed by GoTo.com (later renamed Overture and eventually sold to Yahoo!). Here's how the system works. If you're a company selling sneakers, you can bid to have a link to your website appear in the sponsored area whenever someone does a Google search for, say, tennis or Michael Jordan or sneakers or all of those and more. How prominently your ad will be displayed depends on how much you bid and how many people click...
McCain also caught a break last week when James Webb, Navy Secretary under Ronald Reagan, announced he would run as a Democrat against Republican Senator George Allen of Virginia. Allen had hoped to have only token opposition in his re-election bid this year, making it possible for him to also build the machinery for a 2008 presidential run. But with the charismatic Webb as a possible opponent, Allen will have to stick close to home...
...proposal by Faculty Council members yesterday to select their next dean marks a break from centuries of Harvard tradition.But the bid by professors to establish a modicum of self-governance in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is in some respects an attempt to return to Harvard’s historically decentralized administrative structure.If the Faculty does take control of the dean search, that would infringe upon the president’s traditional sphere of influence.Yet, while yesterday’s proposal in some senses upends the standard dean selection process, it also highlights the reality that?...