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...memory and experience to aid Faust. Hyman’s continuing presence is particularly important given the expansion of the provost office’s role during his tenure. Under interim President Bok, Hyman began to share some of Bok’s presidential responsibilities, including chairing many ad hoc tenure committees and fundraising duties. Since 2001, the Office of the Provost has doubled in size—not for the sake of increased bureaucracy, but because the roles and abilities of the office increased so significantly under Hyman’s leadership. And although Hyman was appointed by former...
...arena for trading small stocks. But unlike OTC bourses elsewhere, Vietnam's market has no licensed brokers, virtually no regulatory oversight, and trades often culminate with the exchange of cash for paper shares at a local tea shop. Think of it as an amorphous eBay for speculators, an ad hoc gray market that sprouted spontaneously from the pent-up desire among the Vietnamese to cash in on the country's economic boom. "It's the Wild West," says Noritaka Akamatsu, the World Bank's lead financial economist in Hanoi...
...naval protection racket they had been running in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean since the late 16th century. They seized foreign ships and enslaved the crews. If you paid them tribute in advance, they would leave you alone. Otherwise, you would have to ransom captives on an ad hoc basis. Their most famous prisoner was Miguel de Cervantes, who fictionalized his ordeal in Don Quixote. Roman Catholic religious orders (Trinitarians, Order of Mercy) devoted themselves to the business of ransoming Christian captives...
...unfair to Sherley.Brown and Reif refused to comment.Sherley also said in his letter that Reif asked him to provide layoff notices to the members of his lab in November, before the committee had even finished its investigation. MIT claimed that fair procedure was followed.“The ad hoc committee [formed after Sherley’s first complaint] concluded that the process that led to the decision not to advance Professor Sherley’s case for tenure was fair and did not differ in any significant way from the standard process used in tenure reviews...
...Monday’s Crimson, Interim University President Bok said he did not know about the University’s indirect holdings in PetroChina and Sinopec, and that the investments must relate to something that happened prior to his interim presidency. As long as the current ad hoc approach to Darfur-related divestment remains in place, we can expect to see the incoming Harvard president make similarly blinkered statements, which will ultimately undermine Harvard’s good standing on this issue. By contrast, the implementation of a targeted divestment model as a matter of policy provides...