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...Linden Street courts are transformed into office space, it is unclear where the organizations currently using it on both an ad hoc and permanent basis would...
...chaired the ad hoc faculty committee appointed by Dean of the Medical School Daniel C. Tosteson '44 to conduct the inquiry, and I feel compelled to answer Professor Dershowitz because I believe his arguments are misinformed and misleading. He is mistaken about the committee's purposes. He also misunderstands the nature of clinical science and the standards by which the Harvard medical faculty--or, for that matter, the faculty of any other first-rate medical school--are judged by their peers...
Under these circumstances, and in view of the extraordinary nature of Dr. Mack's claims and the enormous attention he was attracting, it seems reasonable that an ad hoc committee of the medical faculty should have been asked to gather information about his activities. Mr. Dershowitz evidently thinks otherwise. In the June 30 issue of The Crimson, he said that the appointment of the committee "will act as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of every professor who drifts outside the mainstream..." And in the Washington Post article of August 4, while applauding the outcome of the inquiry...
...meantime, members of the class haveestablished an ad hoc committee to examine waysthe class can change the University's policiesregarding women...
...China sees a pattern that may not in fact exist. The Clinton foreign policy in general is somewhat ad hoc and driven by politics. The approach to China is no different, but Beijing sees something more systematic and more sinister. "In China, more and more people are wondering, What are the Americans up to?" says Cui Liru, a scholar at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing. "Quite a number believe the Americans regard a powerful China as a hindrance to the U.S. in its bid to maintain world dominance, and so are trying hard to keep China...