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...Most staffers expressed irritation at the amount of secrecy surrounding an issue that affects their livelihood. The letters from University President Drew G. Faust and Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann were “a bunch of fluff” indicative of a dearth of leadership and guidance, Kaufman said. The administration had been withholding information in “this incredibly repressive secrecy” up until the final moment—when the ax was already poised to fall...
...That dearth of data has led to a grab bag of speculation about what doomed the four-year-old Airbus A330. Bloggers and aviation experts flit from theory to theory. A terrorist attack? A lightning strike? Some catastrophic technical failure? The first two explanations have largely been discounted (no terrorist group has claimed responsibility, and planes are built to shrug off lightning strikes). Most aircraft accidents stem from an unfortunate cascade of events rather than from any single system malfunction. It's becoming clearer that some combination of weather, an unknown flight-control failure and perhaps the crew's inability...
...thought about how ridiculous that was.”Long after Radcliffe, Sabath became heavily involved in the abortion rights activism, presiding over a Massachusetts organization which frequently organized demonstrations on the Boston Common. Karmel, who said she does not remember a blatant de jure gender divide, says the dearth of females among the Harvard faculty discouraged her from pursuing a Ph.D. She says she thought it would be “practically impossible for a woman to be hired as an academic at an ivy league institution.”“It was a sign...
...night bus increases. Furthermore, the decreased number of shuttles means that those remaining will be even more crowded, presenting significant accessibility concerns for students with wheelchairs. Given the lack of convenient travel options, Quad students with disabilities have considerably diminished access to River facilities, to the extent that the dearth of late-night transportation practically imposes a curfew on their leaving the Quad...
...some artsy/strange pictures to go along with it—not exactly what FlyBy expected when he cracked the issue open. The pdf available online takes a little while to load (116!), but go ahead, angle your computer away from wandering eyes and open it up. Despite the dearth of pure smut, there are at least a few not-so-private parts to be seen...