Word: ouster
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AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's deputy, in a video posted online, calling on Afghans to fight foreign forces in the country, which is suffering some of its worst violence since the Taliban's ouster...
...endowment of large magnitude, such as a building or other ambitious project—under the current interim administration.Several suggested that the reluctance was merely a natural result of the transitional period following any major leader’s resignation. Other donors expressed great frustration over Summers’ ouster and reluctance to donate to a university where the faculty can seemingly force out a president.Yet another camp of alumni, critics of Summers, suggested that his resignation could spark donations. But to many donors who were excited by Summers’ agenda—a plan that includes a major...
...Faculty have appeared to diverge from those of its outgoing dean. The Faculty has addressed few of the critical problems facing undergraduate education in any meaningful way, including those of curricular reform and the need for better teaching. Instead, it spent much of the year focusing on the ouster of University President Lawrence H. Summers—the most undergraduate-friendly Harvard president in recent history—while at other times it had difficulty even attaining quorums at its meetings to discuss undergraduate matters.By this fall, all of the Harvard College Curricular Review’s (HCCR) committees...
...harder to judge. An article in a small Beirut newspaper led to the Iran-Contra scandal. Closer to home, who could have guessed that an article about “intrinsic aptitudes” nearly a year and a half ago would crystallize Faculty resistance and lead to the ouster of University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...leader. On the other hand, I am unquestionably prejudiced in his favor, and the Larry I saw in his office was, by all accounts, not the same President Summers that deans and faculty saw. I will never completely understand the perspective of those faculty members who fought for his ouster, nor will I ever have enough information to offer a definitive judgment on his presidency.But if there is one thing that I am certain about after this whole to-do, it is that Harvard’s next president—whatever other qualities he or she holds?...