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...HOC AIR FORCE: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have developed a jury-rigged bomber capable of flying from jungle hideouts in the north of the island nation to attack government strongholds farther south...
Kaufman, the Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, was submitted for a tenure position by the sociology department in October 2005. Ordinarily the recommendation would have been reviewed within an academic year by an ad hoc committee composed of both Harvard professors outside the candidate’s department and professors from universities around the country within the same discipline. Instead the committee, presided over by Bok, met this March—postponing the decision whether to grant Kaufman tenure by nearly one year...
Kaufman said he was not told why his tenure appointment was not approved, but that he was under the impression that it was Bok’s decision to deny him tenure, with the advice of the ad hoc committee...
...fact is al-Qaeda is too smart to put all of its eggs in one basket. It has not and does not have a field commander, the role KSM has arrogated. It works on the basis of "weak links," mounting terrorist operations by bringing in people on an ad hoc basis, and immediately disbanding the group afterwards...
...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...