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...NATO to start planning for the defense of Turkey in case of an Iraqi attack, Berlin and Paris retaliated with a veto. Ever since, the alliance has been trying to repair the damage. Yet whatever the murky compromise may be, the message was deadly. The alliance is now ad hoc and a la carte. Out goes the "All for one, and one for all" rule at the very heart of NATO. The new motto is "Some for one, some of the time." History's longest-lived alliance deserves a grander death than to be done in by pique and spite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collateral Damage | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

Widnall chaired MIT’s Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Access to and Disclosure of Scientific Information last year, which issued a report examining the relationship between government restrictions and open research—the only report of its sort in the nation, to her knowledge...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sept. 11 Research Limits Draw Fire | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

Being a standing committee means that the names and contact information of the group’s members will be published in course catalogs, giving students greater access to the resources they provide. According to Shelemay, ad hoc committees generally deal with specific issues and exist for only finite periods of time...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Council Denies Drop Date Extension | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

Arnold S. Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and chair of an ad-hoc committee at the Medical School which investigated Mack’s research, said Mack has “only gone through the motions” of producing more objective research...

Author: By Jeremy B. Reff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Explores 'False Memories' | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

...There was no one even conversant with CriticalLegal Studies on the ad hoc committee," she said...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Bok Rejects Dalton Tenure Appeal | 2/9/2003 | See Source »

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