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Critics, however, offer legitimate complaints about Booker's leadership. Many city workers earn a handsome living - Newark has 264 municipal employees who make $100,000 or more. Plus, during 2007 and through the first eight months of 2008, Booker signed some 160 executive orders either giving an employee a pay raise or starting a new hire at a salary above the minimum set by civil-service guidelines. Some orders gave low-level workers a more livable wage. Others were a bit gratuitous. For example, one aide went from making $107,225 to $118,607. Isn't 107 grand enough...
...Hafler joined the Harvard faculty in 1984 and led a team that identified the genes implicated in causing multiple sclerosis, which he said is likely his "most important and long-lasting" accomplishment. But Alpern said that what makes Hafler exceptional among researchers world-wide are his leadership skills and ability to translate research work to the clinical domain...
...Every department needs leadership if the department is going to go from outstanding to more outstanding," said Stephen Waxman, Yale's current neurology chair, who also praised Hafler's work in organizing international research consortia. "Among people who are really good scientists, very few have the innate ability to build programs and collaborations and cooperative efforts, and he has that ability...
...said she was not concerned about the recent departures marking a trend, as she viewed Yale's successful recruitment efforts as more of a testimony than a threat to Harvard's ability to train leading researchers. That peer institutions have set their sights on Harvard faculty and offered them leadership positions should be viewed as "a positive," Tarbell said...
...really helping to influence the leadership around the country," Tarbell said. "But of course, retaining some of our best and brightest is always something we care about...