Word: counseled
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...Appointments, whose members are drawn from Harvard's governing boards and whose job is to approve the president's affirmative tenure recommendations. (Legal investiture of tenure technically comes from the governing boards.) My petition was summarily dismissed, not by the Joint Committee, but by Harvard Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor, who said she had investigated my complaint and found it to be without merit, and who, yes, represents the president whose decision I am appealing. Apparently, callousness to conflict of interest pervades the process...
...general counsel refused to disclose what investigation she had made. We then investigated on our own. We found that members of the ad hoc committee that advised President Rudenstine on my tenure displayed bias, were entangled in conflicts of interest and lacked relevant expertise. And we found no evidence whatever that the general counsel had, despite her assurances, conducted an investigation. We made our findings public, , and openly prepared to return again to the committee of the governing boards with our evidence...
...this point, the secretary of the University, and then the provost, and later the general counsel, each independently, suggested to us that instead of the Joint Committee on Appointments we should go through the grievance procedure administered by Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Initially, we reacted with incredulity. How, we asked, could the dean of a particular Faculty review a decision taken by the University's president? How could we expect fairness in a process run by the very dean's office that assembled the ad hoc committee whose flaws I was contesting...
...tutors and assistant deans will also explicitly tell students they can offer advice on legal matters. This change is mostly semantic as both officers already counsel students in such situations...
Kenneth Starr has decided to quit prosecuting while he?s not ahead. Late Tuesday, the Independent Counsel decided not to seek a retrial of Susan McDougal and Julie Hiatt Steele, both of whom were accused of hindering his office in separate investigations, and both of whose cases ended in mistrials earlier this year. Though the cases were different -- McDougal was accused of keeping mum about the Clintons? Arkansas business dealings and Steele was accused of lying about the Kathleen Willey case -- "both made Starr appear to be overzealous," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. "McDougal made him look that...