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...Most of the premier artists Phelan hired as visiting faculty have careers outside of academia, don’t depend on Harvard for their income, and aren’t interested in taking on the administrative burdens that come with professorship...

Author: By Daniel K. Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staff Complaints Led Knowles to Remove VES Chair | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...level of division in the Security Council over Iraq - the proposals are designed to streamline and alter the requirements of the existing sanctions package to ease the way for Baghdad to import a wider range of civilian goods - the details have not yet been made available, and much will depend on how far a concept called "dual use" is applied on the list of prohibited items. Iraq has previously been blocked, for example, from importing simple painkillers and pencils on the grounds that some of their ingredients could have military uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the U.S. Is Shaping Up to Ease Iraq Sanctions | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...fate of the latest proposals at the U.N. will depend in substantial part on the attitude of Russia and France, which have been critical of the existing sanctions package but are also sympathetic to U.S. concerns over preventing Iraq acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Given that both countries have a measure of self-interest in reviving commercial ties with Iraq - both are substantial Iraqi creditors - Washington is hoping that proposals to allow Baghdad to pay off some of its debt with oil revenues will tempt Moscow and Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the U.S. Is Shaping Up to Ease Iraq Sanctions | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...feel about the war on drugs? That may depend a bit on how you feel about the never-ending drama of Robert Downey Jr. Already facing a court date this week for a drug-related arrest in November, Downey was busted again last week when police found him lurking after midnight in an alleyway behind a motel in Culver City, Calif. He was cited for suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance. More serious charges, if any, will await the results of a urine test administered that night. Downey, who was immediately fired from Ally McBeal, quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Against The War On Drugs | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...traveling public, are responsible; we are the people who fly, who use Federal Express and all the other businesses that need planes and airports in order to do their work. Millions of jobs depend on aviation. The general public requires the convenience of air travel (though it is often inconvenient), and we are still, for the most part, passive and stoical about the price paid by everyone in noise and other forms of pollution. Most people regard noise - plane noise, truck noise, city noise, siren noise, car alarm noise, and so on - as a fact of life, at least until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Pollution: The Sky Has Its Limits | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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