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Skiotis, who was also the associate director of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1976 to 1985, received the Dean’s Letter of Commendation for Excellence in Teaching numerous times and regularly appeared on CNN, BBC, PBS and NPR to comment on military affairs...
...Kirby breathlessly informed the Faculty in his annual letter that the percentage of female Junior Faculty members in humanities departments had dropped. But discrimination, or even an environment subtly hostile to female scholarship, seemed an unlikely explanation for that trend, given substantial representation of women in the departments’ hiring decisions...
...mission. Apparently, the Institute’s directors believe that their mission is to engage young people in certain kinds of politics, or more specifically, Democratic Party politics. Indeed, the IOP was dead-set against hosting the Green candidates’ debate until I threatened to write a letter to this newspaper, describing the IOP’s longstanding mistreatment of the Harvard College Greens...
Eliot Spitzer received an anonymous letter last March that made for intriguing reading. The message suggested that the New York attorney general poke around Marsh & McLennan, the U.S.'s largest insurance broker and a firm Spitzer had tangled with in earlier financial- industry investigations. This time Spitzer asked Marsh about its practice of receiving "contingent commissions" from insurance companies, a controversial type of payment. That's when things started to get nasty. Spitzer says the more he probed, the more Marsh misled and "fed us the same foolishness they've been feeding the public over the years." He felt that...
...Sistani tends to express principles that leave the details open to interpretation. He communicates them before and after sunset prayers, when he addresses his followers' 1,001 questions on proper religious observance, social behavior and personal conduct. He engages in a busy written dialogue with his followers by letter and via the Internet. Not long ago, Rifat al-Amin, a university student in Baghdad, wrote the ayatullah to ask whether protests by his followers should take place in narrow streets where they would block traffic. The marja replied that demonstrations should take place in wide squares instead. Al-Amin also...