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Harvard's presidential search process is illegitimate. It is illegitimate because it fails to take into account the diversity of interests on this campus and because it excludes the voices of students, faculty and staff. This manner of decision-making is typical of the Harvard administration: undemocratic and unaccountable to those with the greatest stake in the outcome...
...thought he was mentally superior to his peers and probably his leadership," says Robert Bryant, former FBI assistant director. That subtle arrogance made him few friends there, and he was nicknamed Dr. Death for his sallow complexion, dark hair, black suits and humorless stare. Because he had no bedside manner, he was never sent out to recruit Soviet turncoats. "He had no people skills at all," says the former colleague, who wonders if the cruel nicknames helped set Hanssen on his traitorous course...
...Petty and Earnhardt, each of whom won the season-long Winston Cup title a record seven times, who had the largest legions of fans. King Richard's subjects loved his laconic aw-shucks manner and the way it contrasted with his ferocity behind the wheel. Ironhead's followers reveled in their hero's orneriness. Jeff Lancaster, owner of Lancaster's BBQ, a restaurant and car-racing shrine in Mooresville, N.C., explained it last week, the walls around him covered with souvenirs of racing giants: "He was the John Wayne of NASCAR. He was a kick-ass, take-names kinda...
...could say the doctor is playing God. But we save a life. With human cloning, we're not so much saving a life as creating a new being by manipulation of the raw materials, DNA, the blueprint for life. You're simply using it in a more creative manner...
...doing much better at improving life for travelers. Two years ago, after a flurry of customer complaints and a congressional threat to impose a passenger bill of rights, the major U.S. carriers made 12 specific commitments aimed at making air travel better. Among them: notifying passengers in a timely manner of delays, cancellations or diversions; and meeting customers' essential needs during long on-aircraft delays. Last week the Department of Transportation's Inspector General reported that the airlines had failed to fulfill many of the pledges. Among other things the report concluded that the airlines frequently gave "inaccurate, incomplete...