Word: interest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the changes are going to have very powerful implications, he says. "We're just beginning see how it went this year, and keep making changes. Improving the department has become an abiding interest and concern...
...extent of Harvard's disregard of its own rules for tenure review and its flouting of basic requirements of fair process. What also sets my case apart is that a member of the Harvard senior faculty, with imagination, audacity and an unusually lively sense of fair play took an interest in what happened and concluded that something should and could be done about...
...petition was summarily dismissed, not by the Joint Committee, but by Harvard Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor, who said she had investigated my complaint and found it to be without merit, and who, yes, represents the president whose decision I am appealing. Apparently, callousness to conflict of interest pervades the process...
...general counsel refused to disclose what investigation she had made. We then investigated on our own. We found that members of the ad hoc committee that advised President Rudenstine on my tenure displayed bias, were entangled in conflicts of interest and lacked relevant expertise. And we found no evidence whatever that the general counsel had, despite her assurances, conducted an investigation. We made our findings public, , and openly prepared to return again to the committee of the governing boards with our evidence...
...announced the assignment of top company engineer Wah Lim to head a panel of Western scientists who would advise China on possible causes of three rocket failures, the most recent of which had destroyed a Loral satellite. Fixing glitches in China's rocket-guidance system was in Loral's interest, but, Bryen cautioned, it could also improve the reach and accuracy of the country's ballistic missiles, in violation of U.S. laws...