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Fisher, who last February became the first Faculty member to publicly call on Summers to resign, has long been an outspoken critic of the president’s leadership. He told the Yale Daily News that “Harvard is becoming a dictatorship,” and he told both the Yale student paper and the Boston Globe that he was looking for jobs outside of Harvard...
...leadership of President Lawrence H. Summers.” Summers lost a similar vote 218–185 last March. Fisher has long been an outspoken critic of Summers’ leadership. Last February, he told the Yale Daily News that “Harvard is becoming a dictatorship,” and he told both the Yale student paper and the Boston Globe that he was looking for jobs outside of Harvard. Recently, he has expanded his criticism to the Corporation for failing to remove Summers from the presidency. In a question rhetorically addressed toward the Corporation, Fisher asked...
...draw upon. Only the second Commission President to be appointed from outside the original six nations of the E.U. (the other was Roy Jenkins, all of 30 years ago), Barroso usefully combined in one person a variety of European constituencies. As the former Prime Minister of Portugal - a fascist dictatorship until the 1970s - he was expected to understand the aspirations of the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe; as an economic liberal and an Atlanticist - but not an Anglo-Saxon - he should have been able to bridge the gap between new and old Europe that opened up before...
...most common refrain among voters was a call for change, even though the government has changed hands more than a dozen times since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship 20 years ago-and has seen 35 coups since it declared independence in 1804. The only democratically elected president to have completed his term of office is Ren? Garcia Pr?val, today's presidential frontrunner-initial results tabulated in and around the capital give him a 60% lead. For the last five years, the 63-year old agronomist has been astutely observing the political scene from the quiet of his rural hometown...
...high price. First, the government compromises essential freedoms, censoring citizens heavily. It’s true that the arts are heavily subsidized—but only those that don’t contradict socialist principles. Cubans can only get restricted internet access. Newspapers are essentially the mouthpieces of the dictatorship. Security guards stood in the lobby of my hotel to keep Cubans out of the guests’ rooms. I found out that the government does not want its citizens to see cable television. It might show them the trappings of more prosperous societies. Second, Cuba’s regime...