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...past, the MSHA made its inspectors' full notes public, but since 2004, it has released only briefer citations. Critics say the inspectors' notes provide more information on conditions in dangerous mines. Representative Henry Waxman, top Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, has sent a letter to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao--whose department oversees the MSHA--arguing that if the inspector notes for the Sago citations had been disclosed, "it is possible that lifesaving reforms could have been identified and put in place." Waxman tells TIME, "The Administration's obsession with secrecy is literally endangering lives." Mine-inspection officials dispute...
...blank in my intellectual life, and I don't know why. I guess I'm naturally a novelist. I want a few hundred pages to make my statement. But that resistance only lasted a minute or so. I read it, and we wrote Annie Proulx our letter asking if we could option it an hour later...
After three years of committee meetings and draft reports, the Harvard College Curricular Review is moving to a period of “formal discussion and decision” that will include much-awaited legislation for a Faculty vote, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby announced in a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Friday...
...While Kirby’s letter did not set a concrete schedule for when votes will occur, he did lay out a broad outline of the order in which reports will be discussed at Faculty meetings in the coming semester...
...history of our curricular reforms in the past century shows that Harvard has been better at making large curricular statements than it has been in improving the teaching of its undergraduates,” Kirby wrote in the letter. “We should be pleased for this Faculty to engage in a firm defense of the ideals of a liberal education—vulnerable here as anywhere—but only if, in the same moment, we really improve what we do here...