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...have more confidence in TIME if worthier individuals stared out from its covers. Jet Li, no doubt an altruistic and decent man, could do much more to shape China's future in a positive way. At a time when a prominent democracy activist has been jailed for signing a letter asking for competitive elections and openness in China, we are reminded that the country will be sculpted by ideological battles, not philanthropic organizations. Li would be more deserving of the apparent reverence heaped upon him by awestruck Sichuan people if he were to take a real stand and challenge...
Urging against a "possible overreaction," Levin wrote in a letter to faculty and administrators Tuesday that Yale would not implement hiring and salary freezes, which are already in place for certain Harvard faculties...
...cannot be seen to—and should not—allow partisan reasons to supercede academic requirements. While the decision to retain the current exam schedule is an appropriate one, the attitude of the Administrative Board toward granting exceptions for individual students has been extraordinarily opaque. In a letter to faculty, Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Barry S. Kane informed the faculty that while the Registrar’s office is able to move exams, the Administrative Board has the sole authority to decide individual exceptions for students. Clearly, it is a rarity...
Another Madoff feeder fund was run by Maxam Capital. The head of that firm, Sandra Manzke, a former head of Tremont, has recently been outspoken about misbehavior in the hedge-fund industry. She recently sent a letter out to hundreds of hedge funds berating them for their large fees and for halting client redemptions when funds were down. "I am appalled and disgusted by the activities of a number of hedge-fund managers," she wrote in late November...
...Sundquist ’09 said a Council can realistically have only one major project in a year. Sundquist said that accomplishing “pass/no record” grading for freshmen, increasing the period in which students can change their status in a course from pass/fail to letter grade, or lengthening the time students can add or drop a class would have to be the single priority for UC leadership. Currently, to cross-register at graduate schools or other universities students can use an online course catalog. “In order to centralize everything you would need...