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Dave C. Rennard ’03 of Greenough Hall, recently became the Union’s self-pronounced “Shower Inspector.” Rennard, who introduces himself as “Dave Rennard—living life to the extreme” just reviewed the last shower in Greenough, and has plans to move on to Hurlbut and Pennypacker in the near future...
...seizure, Harvard Yard Operations went through every first-year dorm to confiscate all incendiary appliances ranging from rice cookers to coffee-makers. Although the inspection wasn't entirely unannounced, it did catch many first-years by surprise. Some students recounted horror stories of waking up to find an inspector in the middle of their room. Other students who were out of their room returned to find items missing, without any note explaining what was taken or where to retrieve their items...
Akhil Sharma's An Obedient Father, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in June, is an Indian family novel that should appeal to anyone with a taste for red-blooded American realism and farce. His narrator, Ram Karan, a corrupt inspector for the New Delhi school system, is a self-pitying moral sloth whom Mark Twain would have recognized in a Missouri minute...
...than fiction. In what bears a striking resemblance to a setup for a bad joke, the New York Times reported Thursday that Maj. Gen. Larry Smith, the officer accused of harassing the Army's highest-ranking woman, Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, was poised last summer to be appointed deputy inspector general for the Army - in which capacity he would have investigated, among other personnel matters, charges of sexual harassment. Smith never got the job, because when news of his pending promotion reached Kennedy, she filed a formal complaint alleging that Smith groped her in her office back...
Normally, when the inspector general of a government department conducts an investigation, the Justice Department waits for a formal criminal referral before getting involved. Not so with the State Department's deepening criminal probe into questionable dealings by Al Gore's campaign chairman, Tony Coelho, a Justice source tells TIME. Why the unusual coordination between the two? "To be honest," says a high-ranking Justice official, "because it looks like there might be something there." So Justice wants the initial investigation handled carefully...