Word: doneness
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...Above all, colleagues credit Spencer with an uncanny ability to get things done, and her duties, from all appearances, are designed to harness that talent. Though Harvard describes her charge as “oversee[ing] the work of the President’s office,” it is perhaps best characterized by her sole published quote on assuming the post: “As we move forward, the emphasis increasingly will be on effective execution...
...These liberals are not about to institute affirmative action for conservatives. They let things slide. They do not see that, in our time at least, the diversity John Stuart Mill prized does not come about automatically. The case for affirmative counteraction does not rest so much on the injustice done to conservatives, which liberals take lightly, as on the restoration of Harvard’s academic integrity...
...Students in pass/fail classes should be allowed to switch back to letter-grading until near the end of the semesters, as is done at Columbia, where students have until the ninth week to decide. The current deadline for changing grading at Harvard is the fifth Monday, at which point students still have little idea how they well are likely to do. So students who have chosen to take a class pass/fail for “insurance” are then forced to take the “pass” on their transcript, regardless of how well they...
...going to be rocking in chairs in Texas talking about the good old days of his time as the press secretary. And I can assure you, I will feel the same way then that I feel now, that I can say to Scott, job well done...
...this administration has lacked both the policy foresight and the support of the American people to effect any meaningful change. Despite Bush’s failures, however, we are optimistic that with the right leadership, our nation will be able to overcome our problems as we’ve done so many times before...