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...With Bok’s life-size oil portrait on the wall to his left, the veteran Harvard president took up his gavel for the first time in 15 years. Although he is expected to leave his post by mid-summer, Bok laid out an active agenda for the academic year. He said the administration would work to become more transparent, propose a master plan for the new Allston campus, and move to integrate science research across the University...
Sumaye, whose term as PM ended in 2005, has enrolled as a mid-career student in the Edward S. Mason Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) for the 2006-2007 academic year, according to KSG media relations manager Doug Gavel...
...like an auctioneer. Promoting his 11th Budget at a recent Liberal Party fundraising event for 700 in Sydney, Costello was in full boom. Heckling the man who was about to cut their taxes by $100 a week was not this crowd's style. Where a property salesman employs a gavel, Costello does a PowerPoint floor show with happy hands and a jerky delivery. You can never predict when Costello's number will switch from the piano of crisis to the forte of triumph. So an audience tends to ride out the bumps with him. "Where the bloody hell were...
...Biological Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham.At the end of the session, the president noted that the next Faculty meeting will be the last one he chairs.“I look forward to sharing a few observations with you at that time,” Summers said before banging his gavel.—Staff writer Evan H. Jacobs can be reached at ehjacobs@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Anton S. Troianovski can be reached at atroian@fas.harvard.edu...
Undergraduate Council Vice President Annie R. Riley ’07 rarely speaks, except to turn aside and express her frustration to John S. Haddock ’07. He slams his gavel. Despite the UC president’s greatest efforts, law and order have momentarily ceased. The representatives have banded into nomadic conglomerates, wandering the room. “That’s a fallacy of logic,” one young erudite exclaims from the margins of the room. “Your logic would have integrity if…” another student trails...