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Over the past year, Faculty members consolidated their power through two groups—the Faculty Council, FAS’s elected, 18-member highest body, and the Caucus of Chairs, a newer, less formal group. The professors used their increased power to act against Summers, whose leadership style and stances on several issues they disliked, and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, whom they perceived as mishandling FAS affairs...
...following the resignations of Kirby in January and Summers in February, Faculty Council and Caucus members say they will continue their active participation in FAS governance out of a sense of duty...
...Faculty Council and the Caucus of Chairs broke through the traditional boundary between faculty members and the University’s highest-ranking administrators when they arranged to meet with the members of the secretive Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body...
...Pence, a lawyer and former radio and television host, is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the caucus of House conservatives, but the group did not offer the plan because it?s split on how to handle immigration overhaul. Pence?s official biography calls him ?a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order...
When Monday night’s launch party reached a size slightly less than that of the Senate Democratic caucus, Fink took center stage and announced the winners of the “First Annual Dem Apples Awards.” (Dem Apples is the official blog of the Harvard Dems). The prizes, naturally, came in the form of apples painted blue. Fink gave out about half a dozen of them, one for “Best Republican-Lite,” for instance, and another for best use of profanity. The latter went to Markus R.T. Kolic...