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Though largely powerless, the overseers in theory supervise the decisions made by the Harvard Corporation, the University's main governing body. And when the Corporation chooses President Neil L. Rudenstine's in the coming year, the overseers must give their consent...
...committee will likely include the entire Harvard Corporation, the six fellows who are both the University's highest governing body and its owners. Senior Fellow Robert G. Stone '45 will chair the group. The Corporation will pick its candidate and then ask the Board of Overseers for its consent...
...There are, in history, some times when they didn't like the choice and it took some trying for the consent to be given," says Charles P. Slichter '45, a former member of the Corporation who chaired the last presidential search. "The problem is for the Overseers to feel that they are sufficiently knowledgeable about the nominees and process to give consent...
...only work at one of them) and a laundry list of "conduct remedies" for the meantime. Basically, the plan is that the Redmond boys check with their lawyers before going to the bathroom. It's the biggest antitrust decision since the 1984 AT&T splintering (which was by consent decree, not court order) and it's sure to have the rest of the high-tech industry alternately leaping for joy and wondering whether down the road, the government exterminator will be worse than the rat. But mainly, it's round...
...have questioned everything from the system's cost and viability to its potential to destabilize the existing arms control regime. Some of Washington's key European allies used President Clinton's valedictory tour this week to echo Russia's warning that building a missile-defense system without Moscow's consent may compel Moscow and possibly Beijing, too, to deploy more missiles in order to achieve the capacity to overwhelm a U.S. interceptor system, therefore maintaining the deterrent value of their own arsenals. Although President Clinton is committed to making a decision this summer over whether to proceed with building...