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...Beckham today is still a marquee name, but he's no longer a marquee player. Even at age 31, he's lost his place in the Real Madrid starting lineup and in England's national squad, and Real had announced they would not renew his contract in the summer. Indeed, skeptics have long suggested that Real had signed Beckham from Manchester in the first place less for his on-field ability than for his global glamour-icon status, which would help the team sell replica gear all over the world. To be fair, Beckham earned his keep as a rather...
...experience as well as awards and honors. Graduate students have asked for a more formalized system, Skocpol said. Among its other recommendations, the report encourages greater faculty involvement in the instruction of teaching fellows. Such recommendations, Skocpol said, are a “statement of ideals, not a legal contract.” “These recommendations are pretty comprehensive. We need to carry these things through.” —Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...
...After McConnell left the NSA, he never lost his taste for technology. Joining Booz Allen Hamilton, the mega consulting firm, McConnell spent the next 10 years selling gadgets and software to the government. In 2002, Booz Allen won a $63 million "data mining" contract with the Pentagon. The general idea behind it was that if you sift through enough public data, you can spot a terrorist, and McConnell was a strong backer of the program. But Booz Allen's contract was cancelled when civil libertarians objected to the government going though Americans' personal records without a warrant...
...order to articulate labor grievances and to benefit from the power of collective bargaining. Salaries for the non-unionized guards have lagged behind those of unionized Harvard workers in recent years. In addition, some workers have complained of inadequate health-care benefits and a deficient grievance process. A new contract negotiated by SEIU on behalf of the guards will likely augment their paltry $11-per-hour salary and provide more comprehensive benefits...
...under contract to serve as vice-chancellor of Cambridge through 2010. (The chancellorship is a ceremonial post held by Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip.) One former colleague suggests that before returning to England in 2003, Richard, who is 58, insisted that her term at Cambridge last seven years, rather than the expected five...