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Eighteen months after an ad hoc committee denied him tenure, Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz continues to protest the decision...
...27th letter to Knowles, Berkowitz explained his case and asked Knowles to consider his appeal because the Office of the Dean assembled the ad hoc committee that originally denied him tenure...
According to a letter written by Berkowitz and Nesson to MacFarquhar, they discussed the ad hoc committee's disregard of the government department's recommendations, the participation of Associate Provost and Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson in the tenure process and MacFarquhar's power to resolve the grievance...
...themselves into the ordinary fabric of life. All the while, conservatives have been field-testing homosexuality as a defining issue for the Republican Party, especially for the next presidential election. This is all happening while Americans generally are drifting toward a bumpy accommodation, making judgments that are intricate, ad hoc and unpredictable. In a new TIME/CNN poll, 64% of those questioned thought homosexual relations are acceptable, but 48% thought they are morally wrong...
...hoc ceremony assembled members of the Harvard administration and of the Lowell Senior Common Room, many of whom gave toasts to Eck and Austin. One tangible symbol of tradition was the presentation by the Lowell House Committee of the official "Lowell salt," a silver, Stanley-Cup-shaped salt shaker whose presence is required at high table...