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...Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments this week about whether the 595 detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba may challenge their captivity in federal court. It's one of three cases on the court's docket this month that strike at a linchpin of the Bush Administration's counterterrorism policy: that a wartime President may assert sweeping executive authority in the interest of national security. By late June, the court may issue key rulings on separation-of-powers issues, such as whether U.S. citizens can be locked up indefinitely without court review...
Next on the docket for Harvard is the Ivy League season, as the squad will spend the rest of April battling its Ivy foes—the highest of which, Brown, only just cracked...
...Faculty meetings is relatively customary, and there has been no increase in the number of cancellations per year since Kirby took over from Knowles. Moreover, the meeting was called off because, as laid down in the procedures governing Faculty meetings, no one put any topics for discussion on the docket with the required amount of notice. That said, Kirby himself could have put discussion of Allston and the curricular review on if he had thought it sufficiently important to get continuing feedback from Faculty members...
...Memorial Teaching Prize in 2002. Even expected outlets of discontent don’t pipe up. The Harvard Republican Club? Not a word. The ever-standoffish University President Lawrence H. Summers? Nothing—in fact, he’s a guest lecturer, probably the most conservative on the docket...
...have expressed their dismay at being kept in the dark about Allston developments throughout the fall. After University President Lawrence H. Summers released a 10-page letter outlining plans to create a science hub in Allston in October, the new campus and the planning process around it dominated the docket of Faculty and Faculty Council meetings...