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...University President Neil L. Rudenstine is known for spending long hours on meticulous searches. Delong also said that Summers' ability to pick good people is one of his greatest strengths. "For the part of the job that is spent in ad hoc committees making personnel decisions, he's the best you can possibly get--probably one of the best in the world," Delong said...
...only [increase faculty size] as quickly as departments make searches, read recommendations, write dossiers, send them to the academic deans, and send it to the president for ad hoc review," Fisher says. "All of this takes time; there's a very high level of scrutiny...
...While there are some who did not accept the conclusions of the ad hoc...
...behalf of jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier? "David Geffen will barely talk to me!" he says. His clumsy reactions reveal how heavily he relied upon his palace guards. All that's left of the Clinton spin machine is a succession of temporary press secretaries and an ad hoc group of advisers. He is no longer able to change the subject with a merry economic report or poll-tested Executive Order or Middle East peace conference...
...recommendations, presented in an open letter from the ad hoc Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf, called for the U.S. to recognize the exiled Iraqi National Congress as the rightful leader of Iraq. The committee further called for the U.S. to assist the I.N.C. by launching "a systematic air campaign against the pillars of [Saddam's] power," and, as a last resort, by positioning "U.S. ground-force equipment in the region" to back the I.N.C. up. Funding for the project would come by tapping oil revenues in parts of Iraq that would fall under I.N.C. control...