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...wrote urging that any woman vaguely associated with Wellesley “boycott sex with Harvard students, faculty, administrators and anyone else vaguely associated with the school until the magazine prints an apology for the article.” The next week, we received a letter from an ad hoc organization of civic-minded MIT students who offered to pick up the slack until that apology was forthcoming...
...general. “It’s essential that one person who has an idea of how the Faculty is moving forward oversees the process,” he says. “I’ve been extremely impressed with President [Lawrence H.] Summers in the ad hoc proceedings. He seems very well informed...
...again and again and said nothing else; he was either deranged or doing a good job of pretending. The prison commander, Awaz Mohammed, said Aziz was merely acting that way in hope that his captors would take pity and take no action against him--a sort of ad hoc insanity defense. "These are the gifts that Osama has sent to Afghanistan," said Mohammed...
...officials—including Summers, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles and Dean for Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82—have discussed the formation of an ad hoc committee to carry out a review of the entire curriculum...
...that students are less well-prepared to deal with complex issues in the policy school,” says James H. Fowler ’92, a fourth-year government graduate student. “Kennedy School students are able to communicate, but there’s an ad hoc-ness they have, a lack of scientific rigor...