Word: jointed
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Watson noted the success of the Museum'scultural outreach program for K-12 students in thearea, a joint project with several other Harvardmuseums. The new director said to improve theoutreach programs, she has "great hopes for aseries of new, exciting teacher training programsin the future...
...abandonment of procuedure at the hands of Whitehead Professor Dennis F. Thompson, another of the government department's five political theorists, who is also the director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions. Though Thompson's name does not appear on Feinberg's letter to the joint Committee, and though no members of the Berkowitz camp explicitly stated that Thompson sabotaged the appointment, there was no question to any member of the audience in Nesson's class about the implication...
Nesson summarized the above-mentioned letter to the Joint Committee, which fails to mention Thompson, as follows: "One: Dennis Thompson is sufficiently antagonistic to Peter [Berkowitz] that he formally declared himself not to be a witness in the process, yet he had a deep influence on the outcome. Two: the President should have known that it was a conflict. The ad hoc process at Harvard was rigged to be a hanging jury. Three: Dennis Thompson has a great influence as a friend of Neil Rudenstine. His wife, Carol, works in the office that puts as hoc panels together." Carol...
...case, the issue at hand is greater than the academic parlor game of "Who killed J.R?" For the Berkowitz camp, the question is whether there is a legal cause of action through which the professor can attain a new tenure hearing and/or financial damages for irreparable harm. For the Joint Committee on Appointments, the question is whether due process was violated so that the supposed sanctity and neutrality of the tenure process which former Dean of FAS Henry Rosovsky heralds in The University, is maintained. For the University community as a whole, the question is whether this method...
Indeed. You're back in the car headed east to Talpa, a favorite Mexican joint in West Los Angeles where on warm summer nights you have sat with a cold beer and a Cuban (cigar, not companion) and watched the Dodgers on Spanish-language television. But you walk in now and, sure enough, owner Andres Martinez has posted no-smoking signs. The law is the law, he says dolefully, and it's the bar owner, not the customer, who will pay the fines--starting at $100 and going as high as $7,000--if the butt police appear...