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...Blair's tone may have been affectionate and familiar, but the drawn-out process that led to Muammar Gaddafi coming in from the cold wasn't always so warm. At one point, Seif al Islam recalls, his father "suspected an ambush" by the West: getting him to give up his only deterrent but withholding diplomatic rehabilitation. A series of TIME interviews that began before Sept. 11 with Gaddafi himself, his influential son and key Libyan officials offer a unique look into the Libyan view of the secret talks and considerations that led to Gaddafi?s staggering reversal of fortune...
...believe it is in the best of interests of Harvard...they will do it, they really will do it,” said Rudenstine, who sported silver cufflinks and a red-and-black checkered tie.The former president spoke in the same ornate hall in which, three months ago, the drawn-out battle between outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers and the Faculty came to a head. The long shadow of that imbroglio was in subtle evidence at the ceremony.Before pulling the drape off the portrait, which will join the paintings of Harvard presidents and benefactors hanging in the Faculty Room...
...relatively quickly—four to six weeks from when the case is ready.“It’s like putting together a really complicated jigsaw puzzle,” Martin says.But professors acknowledge that decision-making takes time. “It is a very long drawn-out process, it means that Harvard can never act quickly, and I’m sure there are opportunity costs, but mostly they’re outweighed by good decisions on the other side. I came from a university where tenure was much easier, where there weren?...
...success. The trophies and photos enshrined in both Newell and Weld are testament enough to that.Rowing, both on the collegiate and the Olympic level, maintains the winner-take-all element so unique to college sports and so neglected in most of the professional realm. There’s no drawn-out series to watch, no seven-week playoff colossus that dulls the NBA until the Finals. There’s one start, one six-minute race to see who can outlast lactic acid buildup longer, and one hurried chance to get everything perfect. There are no timeouts, no pitching changes...
...thing ABC (and other networks) can count on is a drawn-out brouhaha with the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, and other Hollywood unions. Unions are already demanding a boost in residuals members earn for iTunes downloads, and they may ask for additional money coming from the new revenues generated by streaming video ad sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part...