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...light of his own generous decision, it was, of course, impossible for me to look President Bok in the eye and say ‘No.’”Knowles first took the Faculty’s helm in 1991 under then-University President Neil L. Rudenstine, inheriting an $11.7 million budget deficit. The dean proceeded to tighten belts across FAS—provoking a small outcry when he cut 10 staff positions at the Semitic Museum. He had nearly erased the deficit by 1996.Knowles returns to the deanship as FAS faces possible deficits yet again, resulting...
Knowles first took the Faculty’s helm in 1991 under then-University President Neil L. Rudenstine, inheriting an $11.7 million budget deficit. The dean proceeded to tighten belts across FAS—provoking a small outcry when he cut 10 staff positions at the Semitic Museum. He had nearly erased the deficit...
...number 14 million, are Buddhist, and live mainly in the south) and the Tamils (who number 2 million, are Hindu, and are concentrated in the north and east). The roots of discord go back to colonial times. The British favored the Tamils in the civil service in what Neil DeVotta, author of Blowback, a book about the origins of the conflict, says was "classic divide and rule." After independence in 1948, the Sinhalese took revenge. They made Sinhala the official language, discriminated against Tamils in areas like education and farming, and made Sinhala chauvinism a winning electoral strategy, most recently...
Creative home for Neil Armfield is a former tomato sauce factory in Sydney's Surry Hills. It's here Australia's finest director goes, as Shakespeare's Hamlet says, "to sleep, perchance to dream." Here, under Armfield's gentle, bespectacled gaze, Geoffrey Rush first leaped to life as Proposhkin in Gogol's Diary of a Madman and Cate Blanchett came of age as Miranda in The Tempest. It's also where Armfield dreamed up his 1998 stage adaptation of Tim Winton's novel Cloudstreet, the epic production that put his name in theatrical heaven. With 14 actors playing 40 characters...
...with succession gossip and plots that his authority is fading anyway. Outside Westminster, where it really counts, the mood music is scratchy. "Blair should've gone out on a high and given Brown a chance to make his mark, whereas now we're left with this crappy infighting," says Neil Pennill, an information-technology worker in London, whose colleagues, dining with him, nod in agreement. As with George W. Bush, his friend across the Atlantic, Iraq is the mother of all Blair's troubles. Voters think he stretched the case for war beyond what the evidence could bear...