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...women and minorities on the list of candidates to replace Knight, who is African-American.And school committee members said the secrecy surrounding this first stage of the search did not make managerial sense.School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 said her board “never got formal reporting.”“While I respect the search committee, it’s a sign of good management to make sure that all the stakeholders understand the process and the progress that is being made, without breaching any confidentiality of the candidates,” Nolan...
...granted by Dream Foundation. The nonprofit group headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., grants wishes to adults nationwide who have 12 months or less to live. Mir, a volunteer, understands what it means to have a dream fulfilled. The foundation gave her son Marcel a birthday bash with friends in formal gowns and dressy suits before he succumbed at age 23 to cancer in 2001. "He came alive for his birthday. He was so happy," Mir recalls...
...element of individual taste…is just as important in the 20th century as it has been in the 18th and 19th centuries," he said. But, true to form, Barenboim didn’t confine himself to discussion of music. Criticizing American cultural exceptionalism, he jokingly made a formal appeal "for the name of this country to be changed to what it really is: The United States of Central North America...
January 2006: With the various curricular review reports ostensibly completed, Kirby announces in a letter to professors that the review is moving to a “formal discussion and decision” that could include a vote on general education by the end of the spring 2006 semester. Just one week after the announcement, Kirby resigns under pressure from Summers, setting off a wave of Faculty attacks on Summers that lead to Summers’ resignation in February. Summers’ and Kirby’s resignations, combined with tepid support for the November 2005 report, result in little...
...Color me underwhelmed, especially so given that at one of the first formal meetings held in the Women’s Center—to encourage women to run for UC, as it happens—total attendance amounted to five people. And one of these was male...