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...specific faculty member,” Cutler said in an e-mail. “I can only say that Lisa Martin is a terrific scholar, a wonderful person, and a great teacher. I wish her all the best.”After a few months, Harvard made a counter-offer, but Martin, who was hoping to move to a new home, said that although the University’s new housing package was structured differently, it did not actually enable her to move.Rosenblum, who said she advocated for Martin in salary negotiations, said “the University?...
...Perhaps this little time-out is just what everybody needs, to reassess the campaign's trajectory - maybe even restore some class to the operation. But even if peace breaks out between the principals, its impact will be muted unless the campaigns muzzle their packs of opposition bloodhounds, counter-punchers and surrogates who produce round-the-clock e-mails to supporters and reporters about their rivals' many shortcomings...
...Democrats have no myth to counter this powerful Republican fantasy. They had to spend their convention on the biographical defensive: Barack Obama really is "one of us," speaker after speaker insisted. Really. Democrats do have the facts in their favor. Polls show that Americans agree with them on the issues. The Bush Administration has been a disaster on many fronts. The McCain campaign has provided only the sketchiest policy proposals; it has spent most of its time trying to divert the national conversation away from matters of substance. But Americans like stories more than issues. Policy proposals are useful...
...recent memory.In May 2007, Harvard students called HUPD during a field day hosted by black student organizations on the Radcliffe Quadrangle, causing an uproar among black students and faculty. HUPD officers reportedly asked students for their identification and asked students if they had permission to be there.S. Allen Counter, the director of the Harvard Foundation and a Harvard Medical School professor, wrote in a subsequent Crimson editorial piece that “these students felt collectively ‘profiled’ by race and asked the simple question, ‘if fifty or more white students were engaged...
...Texas) has already declared a state of emergency, government officials must puncture the popular perception that Gustav was a false alarm. That perception is partly driving what's been dubbed "hurricane fatigue," but also complacency: many residents say they won't evacuate for Ike, or future hurricanes. To counter such sentiment, Mark Cooper, director of the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, says, "All we have to do is talk about what happened during Katrina, and they'll realize what needs to be done." Earlier this week, when Ike was projected to hit Louisiana directly...