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Venky’s announcement marks the third high-level resignation this semester. Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison announced in February that he will step down at the end of this academic year, and dean of the Graduate School of Education Ellen C. Lagemann announced in March that she will also step down in this month...
Venky’s announcement marks the third high-level resignation this semester. Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison announced in February that he will step down at the end of this academic year, and dean of the Graduate School of Education Ellen C. Lagemann announced in March that she will also step down in this month...
...surprisingly, that etiquette lesson has inspired some high-level heckling. Best-selling author Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro wrote an apoplectic critique that caused such a furor last week that the government agreed to review its list. Ribeiro called the wonk who wrote the document "arrogant, cretinous and incompetent" but stopped short of calling the author a clown. (Had he done so, the government's vocabulary primer explains, "the professional who makes a living from making other people laugh might get offended.") When asked why the administration decided to suspend distribution of the document, Perly Cipriano, the tight-lipped Deputy Secretary...
...After a high-level meeting, the party's guns swiveled from the Conservatives to target the Lib Dems. Campaign workers were hustled into key marginal seats, and Blair gave a speech condemning the Lib Dems' policies on crime and drugs. Still the Lib Dems kept surging: by Sunday, the number crunchers at Victoria Street calculated their share of the vote could reach 25% by election day. Finally the Labour counterattack gained traction, and the tide subsided. The day before the election, Mark Penn, a U.S. pollster working for Labour, was able to write on a big whiteboard at headquarters...
...National Security Council presented the White House with a plan to discredit him titled "Marginalizing Chalabi." He was accused by unnamed intelligence officials of leaking U.S. secrets to Iran. His home in Baghdad was raided by the U.S.-run occupation authority, and his feelings were hurt when high-level Pentagon officials who had been in regular contact with him stopped calling when they visited Iraq...