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...engineer, which she said will enable him to bring an analytical perspective to large projects like Allston. “He takes great pride in understanding the implications of x and how x leads to y and y to z,” Faust said in a joint phone interview with Smith yesterday.In contrast to Faust—who has had minimal interaction with Harvard undergraduates as dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advance Studies—Smith has significant familiarity with the undergraduate experience. When the popular computer scientist received tenure in 2000, his colleague, Henry H. Leitner, remarked...
...Isaac was put up for tenure as a professor in Afro-American studies along with two other professors but—unlike them—he was not up for a joint appointment. The other two professors were eventually given tenure while Isaac was denied a position. According to Isaac, this reflected a desire on the part of University administrators to shift the focus of the department away from African studies...
...change the status of Afro-American Studies. This prompted Ewart Guinier, the department’s first chair, to argue that then-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Henry Rosovsky was trying to weaken the department by refusing tenure to Isaac and by insisting that only joint appointees (that is, professors who were not solely tied to the Afro-American Studies department) receive tenure...
...India's biggest companies have begun opening the first of what they say will be thousands of flashy new supermarkets across the country in the next few years. At the same time, foreign retail chains such as Wal-Mart and Carrefour are pressing to enter the market through joint ventures and by lobbying the government to change protectionist laws so they can set up wholly owned chains. The opportunities are immense. The McKinsey Global Institute, a think tank, estimates India's retail market will be worth $1.52 trillion by 2025, up from $370 billion in 2005. Though the relative importance...
...early 1990s, only 1,000 ships entered the port each year; now more than 3,600 do so. Hermanis Cernovs, a naturalized Latvian born in Russia, has witnessed the transformation at first hand. When the Iron Curtain fell, he was commander of a Soviet nuclear submarine. Today, he organizes joint sea-rescue exercises with France, Sweden and the U.S. as the head of the Latvian coast guard. "The changes of the past decade were very, very fast," he says in English, the region's new lingua franca. "They were completely unexpected...