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...will likely consult her on that issue.The directors of various offices and centers focused on tenure, research, and faculty recruitment also need to be consulted if the office would be impacted or have its domain diminished by even the smallest change in policy proposed by the bill. Few things halt change as effectively as a senior member of the University or faculty protesting after not having been consulted in a preliminary discussion.Next, the bill enters the official discussion mechanism of the University: the committee. In almost all cases, there is significant overlap of the purview?...
...foot county jail cell where he will spend the next 120 days for lying during a civil trial to conceal an extramarital affair. Kilpatrick resigned in September after 8 months of accusations, denials and litigation that cost the city millions of dollars and brought its political development to a halt...
...Slowing the downturn may have just got a bit more complicated, as well. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced Friday that it is cutting output by 1.5 million barrels a day in an attempt to halt the slide in oil prices. The price of oil has dropped from $147 a barrel in July, to just $64 Friday. Lower oil prices have been one of the few positive changes in the financial and economic tempest...
...Turkey Coup Trial Gets a Shaky Start Chaos erupted at the opening of a trial for 86 people accused of plotting to overthrow Turkey's Islamic-leaning government, forcing a halt in proceedings and prompting a judge to be removed from the case. The defendants--including retired generals, journalists and lawyers--are charged with belonging to a secret group called Ergenekon, which prosecutors say planned a campaign of violence to oust a leadership it saw as threatening Turkey's secular constitution...
...which would destroy a number of trees, as well as the fact that the buildings would block light and generate noise.The Riverside residents were not able to the reach an amicable resolution with Harvard, and the case escalated into legal action in 2004 when the neighbors sued to halt the construction.Though the buildings were ultimately finished, construction did stop for a period. Riverside, a neighborhood just to the south and east of Harvard, has had a long history of tangled relations with Harvard, notably when residents protesting new student housing disrupted the Commencement ceremony in 1970.By contrast, when Harvard presented...