Word: hoc
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...while Summers says he has denied tenure to fewer professors than Rudenstine, his involvement in ad hoc committees has aroused some of the fiercest reactions from faculty...
...self-destruction, the four get to comparing notes. (Maureen is immediately judged the top gun, misery-wise. "Oh, yeah," says Jess. "That's a no-brainer. Don't change your mind. You'd only regret it.") They decide to put off jumping and instead form a bickering, wary, ad hoc fellowship. It's like The Breakfast Club rewritten by Beckett...
...seems that the ad hoc alliance for the obfuscation of truly significant campaign issues has already begun to mobilize its three-years-hence campaign against Sen. Clinton. The United States Justice Foundation has launched the Hillary Clinton Accountability Project, a direct-mail operation designed to disseminate damaging information about the senator. What’s worrying is that the kind of character-based accusations the Accountability Project will surely level against Clinton will prove damaging if she decides to run for president, even though they will ostensibly have little or nothing to do with her campaign platform...
...currently unbearable load on the UC’s top executives. The redefinition of the role of UC vice president as head of both a new UC standing rules and reform committee and a new UC-student group forum is also a positive step in light of the ad hoc responsibilities VPs have held thus far. Requiring the Harvard Concert Commission to report to the CLC is a step we have called for in the past—accountability must go hand-in-hand with responsibility. And though we endorsed a split ticket for UC president and vice president this...
...system are clear. No longer will a technologically clueless student have to figure out how to set up groups in Pine, Webmail, or whatever other e-mail client he or she may use. No longer will we forget to send something to someone, leaving them off of an ad hoc e-mail list. No longer will communicating be unreasonably difficult if a student group is unofficial or trying to get off the ground and gain official status. Everything is now in one nice, easy package. A student simply goes to the HCS webpage (www.hcs.harvard.edu) and clicks...