Word: grosse
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...deputy to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross '71, O'Brien spearheaded a number of student-life initiatives including the creation of two cafés and a campus pub. Emphasizing the importance of student satisfaction data, O'Brien pushed for changes in areas that students identified as problematic, a strategy that drew criticism from some former College administrators who feared that satisfying students might sometimes be different from educating them. O'Brien and other College administrators were also criticized for what some professors called a growing “corporate” culture inside University Hall...
...hired because Gross found his position—created in 2003 with the consolidation of the separate offices of the dean of the College and dean of undergraduate education—to be too much work for one person...
...Gross and then-Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles fired O'Brien last summer after she lost Knowles' support. A deputy dean has not been appointed since, though last September Gross created the post of senior adviser, which he asked Ford Professor of Human Evolution David Pilbeam to fill...
...Gross declined to comment for this story, and O'Brien did not respond to an e-mail request for comment...
...numbers are stunning. Governments around the world hold nearly $5.5 trillion dollars in reserves-an amount greater than the gross national product of any country except the U.S. China has by far the largest horde, with over $1.3 trillion in the till and almost one-quarter of the world's total. But the rest of Asia is far from poor: Japan holds more than $900 billion, Taiwan and South Korea together own over $500 billion and India's reserves crossed $200 billion this year, up more than 30% from a year ago. About two-thirds of these reserves are denominated...