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...implementation of a living wage (by Sept. 1, 1999), that meeting finally took place two weeks ago. Rudenstine did not attend. In the cordial and candid meeting, Fineberg announced that he and the president are delegating the issue to a faculty/administration task force--an Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies selected by the president that has no timeline, excludes students and workers, does not reflect the diversity of the service worker staff at Harvard and has only the power to make recommendations...
...April 19 the ad hoc Eliot Chamber Orchestra gave the forth annual Rainforest Concert, to Benefit the World Wildlife Fund. The small crowd was not disappointed, as the virtuosity of the two featured soloists (Joe Lin '00 and Yuki Sekino '99) proved to be irreproachable. Lin gave the fifth Mozart Violin Concerto and, due to the inferior quality of the ensemble, was forced to take everything down a notch. Tempi lagged but, on the other hand, the winds were wonderful in the andante. John Allanbrook '99, a musical jack-of-all trades, elicited a deliberate, score--fixated performance from...
...April 19 the ad hoc Eliot Chamber Orchestra gave the fourth annual Rainforest Concert, to benefit the World Wildlife Fund. The small crowd was not disappointed, as the virtuosity of the two featured soloists (Joe Lin '00 and Yuki Sekino '99) proved to be irreproachable. Lin gave the fifth Mozart Violin Concerto and, due to the inferior quality of the ensemble, was forced to take everything down a notch. Tempi lagged but, on the other hand, the winds were wonderful in the andante. John Allanbrook '99, a musical jack-of-all-trades, elicited a deliberate, score--fixated performance from...
President Rudenstine has formed a new Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies to review the University's policies with regard to that "contingent workforce" and to make recommendations to the Deans and others, and ultimately to him. The committee, which will be chaired by Quinn Mills, a professor of business administrations, has just been formed and will begin its work shortly...
...know the huge adrenaline rush of low flying. It is addictive, and the faster and lower the better. Sensations are heightened in valleys, with mountainsides just off the wing tips. It is a visual flying process and certainly no place for inept pilots. This is no place for ad hoc or reckless flying. There can be no excuses: there is no escape from this ultimate responsibility. There is no air-traffic controller, no guardian angel. Low-flying accidents are usually fatal and are always traumatic. In any pilot-error accidents that are survived, powerful, protective psychological forces are at work...