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...House Democrats struggle to present a united front ahead of the November elections, what promises to be a nasty fight has broken out within the caucus. Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha, the onetime hawk whose call last November for a troop pullout in Iraq turned him into the antiwar movement's most celebrated voice, sent a two-sentence letter last week to his Democratic colleagues notifying them that he plans to run for majority leader if his party wins back the House. That's a direct challenge to the man who would be in line for the job, Democratic whip Steny...
Though their immediate impetus for action may have disappeared, members of the Council and the Caucus of Chairs say the events of the past year have left them feeling a duty to air their views on issues of FAS governance...
Members of the Caucus of Chairs say that the body, which began to meet in the spring of 2005 in response to concerns over Summers’ leadership, will reconvene in the fall...
Worried that reunion events would cater to straight married couples and their children, some gay and lesbian alumni have stayed away from their class reunions in past years. Realizing this, the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) began almost 10 years ago to organize events for gay and lesbian alumni during reunions, according to HGLC President Thomas H. Parry ’74. Once reunions included these events, a greater number of gay and lesbian alumni felt more comfortable attending their reunions, Parry says.Since 2000, alumni groups have expanded beyond the HGLC to include groups based on ethnic or religious...
...Failure and Change,” focuses on the Enlightenment and its aftermath. But if Harvard were to offer a course on its own administration, the title might be the same.While the University president and the Faculty dean were both casualties in a year of change, the Caucus of Chairs, an informal group of department heads that McDonald coordinated this past fall, saw its position strengthened.Before McDonald, the chair of the Romance languages and literatures department, took over as caucus coordinator, the group’s six-month history primarily consisted of discussions among department heads who had complaints about...