Word: hoc
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Those who have served on ad hoc committees with Rudenstine say he puts an enormous amount of time into understanding the needs of Harvard's departments. All seem to marvel at the level of intellectual rigor he brings to the proceedings...
...recent Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) ad hoc committee proposal recommending a Civil War memorial [in Memorial Hall] including the names of Confederate soldiers disturbs us on both philosophical and practical counts. We believe the idea of memorializing Confederate soldiers represents a troubling historical amnesia...
After 35 years in Washington, Dole has an astonishingly small circle. He has a coterie of old friends, including Democratic Party viceroy Bob Strauss and Archer Daniels Midland Co. chairman Dwayne Andreas, but he does not seek their counsel. Other than his wife Elizabeth, who is an ad hoc adviser on nearly everything, Dole's inner circle is made up of Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico, John McCain of Arizona and Bob Bennett of Utah, and even they say they are not sure what he absorbs. He taps experts on specific policy matters when he needs them--including...
...encourage the creation of such a program at Harvard, the AAC sponsored a conference last November addressing the state of ethnic studies. The group also plans to organize panel discussions in April with members of the ad hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies...
...said that meetings of ESAC members with key administrators such as Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty; Lawrence Buell, dean of undergraduate education and Jorge I. Dominguez, chair of the ad hoc Committee on Ethnic Studies, have yielded very few results. Knowles, Buell and Dominguez could not be reached for comment yesterday...