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...Forst arrived at Harvard, Faust and the Harvard Corporation—the University’s chief governing body—have relied on his financial acumen and ability to reach out to the schools, and Faculty members have taken note of his high visibility. A regular at both social functions and meetings with high-level administrators, Forst describes his style as a “much more ‘pick up the phone and talk to people’—as there’s a real-time need to do that...
...could no longer afford to ignore what seemed to be a growing problem. Students and staff began raising concerns that the Harvard’s sexual harassment procedures were inadequate, leaving female students, staff members and junior faculty vulnerable on a campus disproportionately male in both senior faculty and high-level administrators.During the 1983-1984 academic year, the government department established a committee to investigate incidents within the department, administrators facilitated informal meetings with student group leaders on the cases, faculty members, including Verba, presented a policy statement on the issue to the Faculty, and over a thousand students signed...
President Obama is searching for yet another White House czar to tackle a pressing public concern - and this time it's personal. On May 29 Obama announced a high-level initiative to address the growing problem of computer attacks - against the government, corporations and individuals - by coordinating the various efforts to fight hackers and other computer criminals under the direction of a coordinator already dubbed the "cyber czar." (Read "Those Crazy Internet Security Questions...
...With other countries in Southeast Asia, too, the new Administration has shown itself willing to question years of received wisdom. While Laura Bush condemned the Burmese junta, the Obama Administration has held relatively high-level talks with the country's leadership - in March, Stephen Blake, the State Department's director of Southeast Asian affairs, met Foreign Minister Nyan Win in Naypyidaw. Condoleezza Rice would skip ASEAN's Regional Forum, and the Bush Administration refused to sign ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. The treaty is pretty innocuous - it merely pledges signatories to uphold a zone of peace in Southeast...
When Zhao had finished the taping after a couple of years, he found a way to pass the material to a few trusted friends who had also been high-level party officials. Each was given only some of the recordings, evidently to hedge against their being lost or confiscated. After Zhao died four years ago, some of the people who knew about the recordings - they can't be named here because of fears of retaliation from Chinese authorities - launched a complex, clandestine effort to gather the material in one place and transcribe it for publication. Later, another set of tapes...