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...most significant structural change to the University’s central administration since 1991, President-elect Drew G. Faust announced her intention on Monday to create the post of executive vice president of the University...
...search to fill the new position will begin immediately, according to Faust’s letter, and will be conducted by an informal advisory group designed to help the president-elect “think through the structure and function of the position.” The group includes Law School Dean Elena Kagan, Business School Dean Jay O. Light, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds, Allston leader Christopher M. Gordon, Chief of Staff Katarzyna E. Lundy ‘95, Board of Overseers Vice Chair William F. Lee ‘72, former Vice...
Headlines and official statements from the U.S. hailed Sunday's election of the "pro-American" Nicolas Sarkozy as France's new President, painting him as healer-elect of the trans-Atlantic friendship damaged by the Iraq war. Even the French themselves have begun to see him as a harbinger of a closer relationship with the U.S. But while the new President's foreign policy will feature some differences from that of his predecessor - even some surprises - analysts have poured cold water on the idea that in foreign policy, Sarkozy will be the "anti-Chirac...
...Sarkozy's global warming plans could eventually lead to conflict with Washington, because the President-elect plans to get his European Union partners to impose import taxes on all polluting goods produced in countries that declined to embrace the Kyoto accords. Meanwhile, Sarkozy's strong opposition to Turkey's admission to the EU also runs counter to long-running American lobbying on behalf of Ankara. Though less pedantic in his declarations on the matter, Sarkozy shares Chirac's view that international issues must be addressed multilaterally among equal partners. Washington can also expect no aid on an Iraq war that...
...vast housing projects that ring most French cities, but the vast majority of those suburbs have remained relatively calm since Sunday, even as youths from France's more well-heeled cities went berserk. That restraint in the projects wasn't out of any respect for the President-elect, however...