Word: german
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fisher’s motion comes just days after Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith Ryan put a resolution on the same Feb. 28 docket asking the Faculty to vote on whether or not it “continues to lack confidence in the leadership of President Lawrence H. Summers.” Summers lost a similar vote 218–185 last March...
...Judith L. Ryan, the Weary professor of German and comparative literature, said that while a significant number of her colleagues have been unhappy with the lower online response rates compared to the old paper version, she thinks that the system is working well. “I particularly like the idea that you’re not going to spend class time on [the evaluations],” she said...
...does not refer to Summers by name, nor does it mention the word “resign.” But its text implicitly calls for an administrative shake-up at the highest levels of the University. Another motion, put on the docket last week by Weary Professor of German and of Comparative Literature Judith Ryan, asks the Faculty to vote on whether or not it “continues to lack confidence in the leadership of President Lawrence H. Summers.” Summers lost a similar vote 218–185 last March. Fisher has long been...
...decision by Weary Professor of German and of Comparative Literature Judith Ryan to place yet another no-confidence motion on the docket of the Feb. 28 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting is an unfortunate, though not unanticipated, one. At best, such a vote will be a dilatory and untimely distraction from more vital issues facing the Faculty—a dean search, the curricular review, and the Allston expansion among them; at worst, the motion can be seen as a crass power grab in the wake of the Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby?...
...InterContinental Hong Kong (intercontinental.com) was one of Asia's best-kept secrets. Landscaped terraces, a private solarium and a Jacuzzi with an eye-popping view of the Hong Kong skyline were some of the features that lured guests from movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. They, and anyone else lucky enough to have passed a night there, probably came away with the feeling that the two-bedroom facility was all but unimprovable. Not true. After a $2.5 million makeover, 1600 has reopened as the hotel's presidential suite. An additional story, three new bedrooms...