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...think that ECOMOG can. While President Dawda Jawara of Gambia played host at a meeting in the capital of Banjul to choose an interim President for Liberia, men with guns were very much in control. Taylor forcibly moved nearly 2,000 Nigerians and Guineans, mostly civilians seeking refuge in their embassy compounds in Monrovia, south to the port city of Buchanan, out of the reach of rescue. With Taylor's rebels shooting at Nigerian soldiers and Burkina Faso sending in troops to support Taylor, escalation of the war has already begun...
...dance, but rather to solicit input on the search for a dean of the Faculty to replace William C. Kirby. At this juncture, we have two primary suggestions for Bok to consider in the dean search. First, the next dean of the Faculty should have only an interim appointment and second, Harvard undergraduates must be involved in the searches for both the interim and permanent FAS deans.The notion of a permanent dean is certainly tempting, given the vacuum of leadership left behind by the resignations of Kirby and University President Lawrence H. Summers. But there are numerous disadvantages...
RICHARD HAASS After three years, my answer would be no, although any judgment at this point is necessarily an interim one. The war has absorbed a tremendous amount of U.S. military capacity, the result being that the U.S. has far less spare or available capacity to use in the active sense or to exploit in the diplomatic sense. It has weakened our position against both North Korea and Iran. It has exacerbated U.S. fiscal problems. The war has also contributed to the world's alienation from the U.S. and made it more difficult to galvanize international support for U.S. policy...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) last night called on Derek C. Bok to appoint two students to a faculty committee that will advise the incoming interim president in his search for the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Harvard from 1971 to 1991, will not officially begin his term as interim University president until July 1. But with Summers having resigned in part because professors said they would not trust him with the search for the next Faculty dean, Bok has stressed that he, not Summers, will conduct the search and make the final decision...