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...Disability activists have been phoning Democrats on Judiciary demanding that they block Columbus, Ohio, attorney Jeffrey Sutton from taking a seat on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Sutton, who's a former Ohio solicitor, successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last year that the Constitution limits suits against state governments for discrimination because of a disability. Liberals also accuse him of being hostile to civil rights...
Bono kept yesterday's speech lively with his tales of "crisscrossing the globe like the Partridge family on psychotropic drugs" with Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs '76--who was instrumental in securing Bono as Class Day speaker--and University President-elect Lawrence H. Summers. Anecdotes included a photo shoot in which the Pope wore Bono's signature sunglasses, a plane flight in which an exhausted and disheveled Sachs was mistaken for a member of the Grateful Dead, and a raucous political debate in a "posh" Washington restaurant with Summers...
...said Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, it accomplished all this without any formal constitutional powers, simply using its accepted status as “Dean Knowles’ committee” and the members’ powers of “moral suasion” to achieve these results. One University Hall administrator says Knowles’ lesser reliance on formal consultative processes has enabled delicate issues to be discussed in greater detail and with better results due to the added privacy of unofficial channels...
...national role in recent decades, but Summers should not shrink from using Harvard’s presidency as a bully pulpit to speak on issues affecting the interests of the University and of the educational community. Summers should also consider the suggestion advanced on this page by his colleague Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76—-namely, that of making Harvard a truly global University. Summers’ time at the World Bank has no doubt acquainted him with the shared and international nature of many of the world’s most pressing issues—-from...
...University has inserted itself in the fight against AIDS with its "Consensus Statement on Antiretroviral Treatment for AIDS in Poor Countries," which was signed by more than 100 Harvard faculty members. Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 spearheaded the signature campaign...