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Labor unrest at the university began in 2001, when the Chronicle of Higher Education released a survey ranking the university’s labor conditions 194th out of 195 colleges. The survey led the university’s president, Donna E. Shalala, to create an ad hoc Senate committee to examine the issue of a living wage...
...affaire Shleifer (from which he recused himself). And his favoring some academic departments over others—have Harvard’s administrators ever preferred one branch of learning to another? For the answer, divide $250,000 by $85, vide supra. And his active participation on ad hoc committees. Didn’t he understand the use of the rubber stamp? And he locked horns with a dean, which is also, provided one steadfastly refuses to consult precedents, without precedent...
...fighting his faculty most of the time. Yet, a cursory examination of the last three decades shows that conflict has been the exception—nowhere near a rule. Instead, Harvard history reveals that faculty-administration and inter-faculty dialogue has been conducted on an informal and ad hoc basis. This system has been both flexible and effective when there has been a high level of trust between the faculty and administration. There is no reason to change this paradigm because we had one unusual crisis...
More recent arrangements can seem more ad hoc. Tim and Susie Grade moved to Denver a year ago. They had attended cell groups subsidiary to Sunday services but were delighted to learn that their new neighbors Tim and Michelle Fox longed for a house church like the ones they had seen overseas. Now they and seven other twenty- and thirtysomethings mix a fairly formal weekly communion with a laid-back laying on of hands, semiconfessional "sharing" and a guitar sing-along. Says Tim: "We have some people who come from regular churches, and were a little disenfranchised. And people...
...long-building public sentiment to get tough with violent criminals, to kill the killers, seems on the verge of putting the nation's 15 electric chairs, nine gas chambers, several gallows and ad hoc firing squads back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and peculiarly American technique for killing, lethal anesthesia injections, which could increase public acceptance of executions ... For years, the capital-punishment debate has been sporadic and mainly intramural ... But now an old array of tough questions--practical, legal, moral, even metaphysical--is being examined. Is the death penalty an effective, much less...