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...President Neil L. Rudenstine’s father and mother, both blue-collar workers, never earned a living wage in their entire careers, and he repeatedly emphasizes how deeply he understands the movement’s concerns. In response to PSLM’s demands, Rudenstine convened an ad hoc committee on employment practices which recommended increased overall compensation for Harvard workers. The committee did not endorse PSLM’s demands because, in the words of Provost Harvey V. Fineberg, it decided that a living wage was a “variable and somewhat arbitrary definition [that] omits...
...International Criminal Court (ICC) will be a permanent court to replace the ad hoc tribunals established by the Security Council. The U.S. was one of seven nations that voted against the creation of an ICC, a move that alienated us from almost all of our allies and grouped us with nations such as China, Libya and Iraq—not exactly the bastions of liberal humanitarianism. An eleventh-hour signing of the Rome Statute to create such a court, authorized by former President Clinton, was a halfhearted and empty move. It was an utterly meaningless maneuver, and yet President George...
...commission is also considering launching an inquiry into allegations that police failed to intervene in recent ethnic clashes between Malay and Indian squatters that left six dead and 48 severely wounded. Human Rights Commissioner Anuar Zainal Abidin is studying a 108-page report submitted by an ad hoc group?the Police Watch and Human Rights Committee?that lodges a formal complaint against high-ranking officers alleging no protection was given to ethnic Indians during the riots...
...University president does not become a formal part of the process until much later, presiding over ad-hoc committee meetings and making the final decision on the candidate...
Though his actual influence may be minimal, some professors have suggested that by simply increasing the frequency of ad-hoc meetings, Summers would send a symbolic message that new appointments are high on the presidential priority list...