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...support of Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson, Berkowitz appealed using Harvard’s internal grievance procedures. In a formal grievance to Dean Knowles and the elected members of the Docket Committee in early 1999, Berkowitz alleged that four of the five members of the ad hoc committee assembled to advise Rudenstine “showed bias, conflict of interest, or lack of expertise.” Later that year, however, a Harvard investigation found Berkowitz’s allegations “clearly without merit.” Berkowitz spent over a year wrangling with the grievance...
...Maintaining the integrity of the exam is vital, so that requires consistent testing conditions," NBME spokeswoman Carol Thomson said. "The board cannot make ad hoc, one-on-one decisions...
...annual kick-off event last night, during which former-member and University President Drew G. Faust, as well as others, spoke of the program’s continuing expansion. Faust commended the committee, noting that since its inception over a decade ago it has grown from an ad hoc committee of professors interested in human rights to a nexus for students, scholars, institutes and organizations within and around Harvard. The University president added that she was “inspired” by the high level of student engagement in human rights, and suggested that the College?...
...upset about the ad hoc way NASA settled who would be first to step on the moon? -Robert Newman, DALLASI felt we needed a decision to proceed with training, so I sort of forced the issue. What NASA did was absolutely correct. It would have been unacceptable for the commander to sit up in the lunar module while his co-pilot made the first historic step on the moon...
...problem was that communications between FBI and CIA headquarters is ad hoc - usually by telephone, sometimes by a classified telex. An FBI agent assigned to the CIA wrote a telex to the FBI about al-Hazmi and al-Midhar but for reasons that are still unclear it was never sent. There was no mechanism to register the lapse, or that the FBI in fact did not have al-Midhar and al-Hazmi under coverage. The ball was dropped...