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...report emphasizes the importance of education in helping students to understand the world. And that’s only the beginning.“That’s one thing that’s really exciting about learning is to see that it’s very ad hoc where you start,” says Menand. “But from where you start, the whole world will come into view, if you know where to follow it and let you’re imagination go free with...
...policy. The president is empowered with a deep pocket of discretionary funds, which he or she can direct toward specific programs. He or she can also push initiatives through leadership and inspiration, as President Summers did with financial aid. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the president chairs all ad hoc tenure committees, and thus holds the keys to every faculty post in the University, regardless of the school—a role that is unique among leaders of universities.Given the tremendous power and responsibility of the president, it is regrettable that, at least according to our observations, students?...
...good enough for those few students who, in the words of Ryan M. Travia, director of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, happen to be caught “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Flexibility is good, but this ad hoc decision making fails to guarantee students even vaguely similar treatment for similar crimes...
...department head and it also-in a marvelous final twist-relates a fall of sorts. During his career, Moss kept his employer at arm's length not only emotionally but contractually, turning down opportunities to join the government's "permanent and pensionable establishment" in favor of remaining on ad hoc terms. This meant that he retired, at 58, without the comfortable pension that a long-serving official could expect. Neither had he saved the bonuses that were payable at the end of each of his contracts. "I had treated my gratuities as pocket money, and had continued to blow most...
...press gallery and watched Saddam arrive in his natty dark suit with a silk pocket square, his improbably black hair and greying beard neatly trimmed. He sat quietly with his Koran in his lap for the first two hours, as his newly appointed lawyers offered an ad hoc defense. His co-defendants had already interrupted the proceedings to say they object to the attorneys brought in after the entire defense team boycotted the removal of the previous judge last week, but Saddam stayed mum. That is until the judge admonished his former military intelligence chief for using...