Word: fiefdoms
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...nearly 33 years in power, Suharto seemed to have forged a paternalistic pact with the people of Indonesia that went like this: I will build infrastructure, raise income levels, reduce poverty, battle disease and illiteracy and provide stability, and you will let me run the country as my personal fiefdom. Other strongmen have made that same deal, but no one ever implemented it on such a large scale - Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous nation - for so long...
...place. Isn’t that what administrators are for?Our well-endowed standard-bearers have come out swinging against the torrential tedium that’s threatened Harvard since Larry imploded in 2006. Late last year, Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 announced that his fiefdom, for decades known as the Kennedy School of Government, would henceforth be dubbed the Harvard Kennedy School, in line with the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Business School. It remains unclear what one studies at a “Kennedy School”. Kennedys (sp?) perhaps. Hence the school?...
...want the A.R.T. to be a Harvard organization.“He came in as if he didn’t want to be a part of Harvard,” Senelick says. “Brustein wanted to run the A.R.T. like his own little fiefdom. It had nothing to do with the curriculum and it didn’t foster theater studies. The A.R.T. never really connected with the rest of the University, and I still think it doesn’t.” For the most part, that same de-institutionalized, extracurricular spirit has persisted despite...
...facilities and disclose the scope of its nuclear program by the end of the year. Yet history counsels caution. Kim Jong Il has proven a master manipulator of Seoul's optimists, raising hopes of eventual reunification just to extract economic concessions and buy more time for his hermetic Stalinist fiefdom. "You can imagine a scenario in which South Korea offers this big carrot and North Korea simply pockets it and retreats back into its shell," says Marcus Noland, a North Korea expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics...
...Harvard, Kohlberg united the traditionally detached Cambridge and Longwood tech transfer offices into one operation, the Office of Technology Development (OTD). “He clearly changed it from a fiefdom sort of scenario into more of a university-wide phenomenon,” says George M. Church, a professor of genetics at the Medical School...