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...motion on the agenda for the Feb. 28 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) implores the Harvard Corporation, the only body with the power to fire University President Lawrence H. Summers, to intervene in the escalating battle between professors and the central administration. While past Faculty motions have expressed professors’ displeasure with the president, the new resolution reflects rising frustration with the Corporation’s continued silence on the Summers storm. The motion, which was put on the docket by Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Daniel S. Fisher and obtained by The Crimson...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Motion Calls on Corp. To Intervene | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...decision by Weary Professor of German and of Comparative Literature Judith Ryan to place yet another no-confidence motion on the docket of the Feb. 28 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting is an unfortunate, though not unanticipated, one. At best, such a vote will be a dilatory and untimely distraction from more vital issues facing the Faculty—a dean search, the curricular review, and the Allston expansion among them; at worst, the motion can be seen as a crass power grab in the wake of the Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: No Confidence in ‘No Confidence’ | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...Oscar finalists for animated feature. At a time when computer-generated imagery (CGI) bedazzles the box office, when Disney dumps its 75-year-old traditional-animation unit and spends $7.4 billion to buy CGI leader Pixar, the three nominees are defiantly old-fashioned and handcrafted: two delightful stop-motion movies--Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride--as well as a hand-drawn fantasy, Howl's Moving Castle, from Japanimator Hayao Miyazaki. Meanwhile, three big-studio CGI hits--DreamWorks' Madagascar, Disney's Chicken Little and Fox's Robots--got shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing Oscar: Tumult in Toon Town | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...Body of Christ ... exists across history and we therefore share the shame and the sinfulness of our predecessors." ROWAN WILLIAMS, Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking before the General Synod of the Church of England voted last week on a motion to apologize for the Church's role in sustaining the 18th century slave trade. The motion passed unanimously

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...Faculty meeting, was barely discussed by the Faculty Tuesday and the Faculty Council at its meeting on Wednesday. And though Kirby said he hopes to present review legislation for a vote at the Feb. 28 meeting, the only vote likely to occur will be Ryan’s motion...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers To Face No-Confidence Vote | 2/10/2006 | See Source »

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