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...announcement of the cuts—which University President Drew G. Faust described in a complementary e-mail as "modest in comparison to the overall size of our University-wide staff, but nonetheless painful"—caps weeks of swirling speculation that Harvard would seek to conduct layoffs shortly after Commencement activities. The downsizing is one of the most prominent budget-cutting measures to date following a semester of fiscal anxiety that has seen the trimming of student services, the curtailing of capital projects, and the implementation of a sweeping early retirement incentive program for staff...
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...Most staffers expressed irritation at the amount of secrecy surrounding an issue that affects their livelihood. The letters from University President Drew G. Faust and Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann were “a bunch of fluff” indicative of a dearth of leadership and guidance, Kaufman said. The administration had been withholding information in “this incredibly repressive secrecy” up until the final moment—when the ax was already poised to fall...
...group's officials disagree. They claim the NCRI has thousands of members in Europe and North America. As evidence, they point to a rally outside Paris on Saturday that drew as many as 90,000 people to protest the situation in Iran. NCRI leaders are also quick to point out that the organization supplied information from inside Iran that was pivotal in documenting Tehran's military nuclear ambitions - a fact acknowledged by Western diplomats. (Read "Joe Klein: What I Saw at the Revolution...
...complexities - or perhaps because of them - Rumsfeld has an abiding interest in simple rules. During the second half of his life, he composed lists of them to live by and distributed them freely to others. The homespun compendium of lessons for coping in the federal bureaucracy and corporate world drew largely on quips, aphorisms, and adages that Rumsfeld had read or heard elsewhere. But he fused them into an approach to issues and people that was distinctly his own, confident of his way even as some close to him worried, when he struggled as defense secretary, that he was veering...