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...with yet another delay, University officials started an e-mail campaign to garner support from Harvard employees who live in Cambridge in hopes that it would counter the renewed resident objections...
Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol, who started the petition drive, says she hopes the University’s petition will encourage the city council to avoid “foot-dragging and decision by delay...
...band’s recent increase in booking rate and the short notice for the concert date. College administrators later canceled the concert, at which Wyclef Jean and Jurassic 5 were to perform, citing concerns that not enough tickets would be sold in the limited time period. The delay in ticket sales was caused by a delay in the signing of the contract with the bands...
...identify the pre-Sept. 11 structural and bureaucratic impediments to information sharing and better coordination across the government, and can recommend changes that improve our defenses against terrorism. But using fragments of information as ammunition against the President, the CIA, the FBI and others--absent context--will only delay tackling the real problems...
...smoothly. In the first few months after taking office, Bush was under constant assault by European allies for his unilateralist foreign policy, including his snubbing of Moscow. Among the signs of disrespect: the ouster from the U.S. of 50 alleged Russian diplomat-spies in March 2001, the five-month delay before setting a first Bush-Putin meeting, and the threat, since carried out, to withdraw unilaterally from the 1972 U.S.-Soviet Antiballistic Missile Treaty in order to build a national missile-defense system. British Prime Minister Tony Blair personally urged Bush to tone down the rhetoric and engage with Putin...