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This much is known: On April 20, career CIA analyst Mary McCarthy was fired from her job 10 days before retirement. McCarthy admitted to having undisclosed contact with reporters, and a CIA spokesperson says, without identifying McCarthy, that the fired CIA officer also admitted disclosing classified information to the media. Sources said this includes the Washington Post's Dana Priest, who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for writing that the CIA secretly detained terrorists in Eastern Europe who hadn't been charged with a crime. Beyond that, the case gets murky. Government sources tell TIME that McCarthy might have...
...scholars. Mailed back from across the nation and sometimes across the globe, the external letters respond to the 20 or so requests from departments for evaluations of tenure candidates compared to five or six other scholars in a cohort spanning 10 to 15 years. The internal and external reviews inform each other. “They look at nominally the same thing, but the outside letters have less insight into teaching, advising, and internal service,” says Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department Chair Cynthia Friend, who chaired a 2003 committee that reviewed faculty appointment processes.INSIDE THE BOARDROOMEach Wednesday...
...practice-filled schedules dramatically. Academic policies disproportionately affect athletes, as they miss class more frequently than most students to play. From early morning practices to the biggest games of the year, student-athletes experience Harvard in a different scope, and College administrators would be well served to better inform their decisions relating to every aspect of student life...
...Gross wrote in an e-mail last month that he and his senior staff use survey results to “inform our priorities.” And, he says, the College is focusing on improving in the areas that student surveys have shown need the most work: faculty contact, advising, and social life...
Looking back on four years of classes has forced me to draw connections, and I see now that a class on film can offer insights into human psychology, a grasp of regulatory economics can inform research proposals for environmental engineering, and in my case, a veritable course catalog of disciplines can offer insight into the relationship between social values and political decision-making. I only wish I’d realized it sooner...