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...Monday--Professor Nadav Safran is named to the prestigious chairmanship of a new ethics committee at the Middle East Studies Association. "We couldn't have picked a more experienced guy," read a prepared statement issued by the association. Safran commented, "I'm psyched. Go print THAT, kids" and hung up the phone...
...result, the Standing Committee of the Faculty on Middle Eastern Studies, under the chairmanship of Professor Dwight Perkins, will take a much more active role in the oversight of the Center and its policies. There are some important immediate policy matters to take up. One is whether the CMES needs to supplement the policies of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with respect to grants and contracts, to take account of the special features of the region in which scholars in the field function. For example, the Committee and the director should consider whether, given the particular circumstances...
Clinton says his most important accomplishment is chairmanship of city council's cable television committee; he also wants a sensible zoning pattern for the city to make it livable; and will work toward resolving traffic problems as well as reform the city's current rent control laws...
...major event on the party leader's schedule for the following day was a meeting of the Supreme Soviet, the Soviet Union's nominal parliament. Gorbachev had been widely expected to use that session to assume the presidency, formally known as the Chairmanship of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. That would have followed the example of his three predecessors, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Chernenko. Instead, Gorbachev rose in Moscow's columned Great Kremlin Palace to declare that his duties demanded such "intensity" that he should concentrate on the party leadership. He then nominated Gromyko, 75, who he described...
Apparently, the University and the Faculty handled the situation differently than they did in 1983 when Jorge I. Dominguez, accused of harassment, was stripped of a committee chairmanship but not of his tenure. While the University received praise in February for getting tough with a problem seen as grave for women on campuses nationwide and in Harvard's Government Department specifically, in fact it remains unclear what if any role the University played in Hibbs's resignation. Moreover, it is possible that Harvard was impelled by threats of further action by one of the two women or by MIT itself...