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...Fisher concluded, to applause.In the end, after a roundabout debate over parliamentary procedure, the Faculty voted 59-53 to postpone a vote on the measure for a future meeting.Even if a vote had been taken yesterday, however, it would not have been binding. Near the meeting’s outset University President Lawrence H. Summers asked whether a quorum—one-sixth of the Faculty’s 703 voting members—was present. Secretary of the Faculty David B. Fithian replied that attendance was seven short.Wrapping up discussion of evaluations, Gross said that the matter could wait...
...awareness. After losing their weekend cabin in a fire, they began to envision a new house for the same site, a hill that overlooks the Pacific and a nearby marine-and-bird sanctuary. In a recent e-mail to TIME, they described what they had in mind from the outset: "rustic materials compatible with other homes in the community, [something] snuggled into the landscape, low impact on neighbors, no or low toxic impact on the carpenters, low impact on the site?spacious feeling without being big, cozy without being cramped...
...next president is seeking the same qualities that ultimately led to the appointment of University President Lawrence H. Summers five years ago. In a letter to the Harvard community yesterday, the search committee used passages nearly identical to those that appeared in a similar missive sent out at the outset of the University’s last presidential search in 2000. The committee’s letter, sent to hundreds of thousands of Harvard affiliates, provided the first public insight into what the nine-person body is looking for as it launches the University’s second presidential search...
...Olmert: We're not going to wait for a collapse. We're going to prevent it from the outset without any hesitation. I'm concerned about it independently of the issue of whether it would harm Israeli interests or not. It's enough that it should do something bad for innocent human beings that I will want to prevent it. That doesn't mean I have to cooperate with the Palestinian government. We have to find a way how to help the people without helping a government that can easily use these funds that will be transferred to them...
...were times when the young journalists risked their lives, former Crimson president and former Courier editor Robert E. Smith ’62 said that violence never deterred them from reporting. “It never occurred to me to be scared,” he said at the outset of the discussion. “I guess we were too busy being journalists...