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...chomping Curtis LeMay-largely ran the U.S. Air Force. That changed starting in 1982, when an unbroken chain of nine fighter-pilots-turned-four-star-generals took charge. Which is why Monday's announcement that Defense Secretary Robert Gates was tapping General Norton Schwartz, currently running the Pentagon's globe-girdling transportation network on land, air and sea, to be the beleaguered service's 19th chief of staff, meant more than your average military promotion...
...weeks ago a group of Harvard students from all corners of the globe, and with expertise ranging from economics to engineering, won the World Bank’s Lighting Africa 2008 competition. Their invention of a microbial fuel cell-based lighting system literally creates energy from dirt. The device is intended to provide a reliable and safe means of illumination in a country where roughly only 1/4 of the population has access to electricity...
...interpreted my apparent lack of fear and my recent success in publishing these ideas in The Crimson as proof that there is neither censorship nor fear of criticizing Israel on campus and in the US generally. They should know, first, that both The New York Times and the Boston Globe have repeatedly refused to publish my editorials on this issue. Moreover, I am afraid. Much of a professor’s global effectiveness depends on the personal esteem and cooperation of deans, administrators, and fellow professors. Even my annual salary increases are determined by officials who appear to feel threatened...
...branches of government. Bush has repeatedly tried to undermine the Congressional power through his use of signing statements—written pronouncements effectively allowing the executive branch to ignore parts of legislation. A Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé by Charles C. Savage ’98 in The Boston Globe uncovered that Bush had claimed the authority to ignore more than 750 laws enacted between 2001 and 2006—laws regulating everything from affirmative action to torture...
...Nonetheless, administrative skills were a priority for the search committee, which was assembled by Provost Steven E. Hyman and consisted of Harvard faculty, members of the A.R.T.’s advisory and fiduciary boards, and local drama experts. According to the Boston Globe, Woodruff’s exit was prompted by disappointing ticket sales and rising budgets...