Word: oversight
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...leadership was utterly absent during this building conflict. In an interview with The New York Times last month, Robert E. Rubin ’60, a member of the Corporation that appoints Harvard’s president, professed no knowledge of Summers’ troubles with the faculty. This oversight is inexcusable. In the future, the Corporation must take a more active role in ensuring that the president actually functions within the university. It seems likely that corrective action from the Corporation at an early period could have headed off this Summers-faculty impasse long before it reached its current...
Another member of the committee said that with less departmental oversight, the new legislation will usher in an “old-boys system” of appointments...
East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department Chair Philip A. Kuhn said that he does not share these worries, noting that departments will likely still retain oversight of appointments...
Hillel members will still offer private tutoring for students, but the expanded program, under the oversight of Worship and Study Rabbinic Advisor Norman Janis, includes weekly study groups with members of the congregation...
...past are more and more being entrusted to aides." Some duties, such as signing major encyclicals and apostolic letters, cannot be handed off to others. But Vatican insiders say the Pope has now given the green light to the heads of dicasteries to handle their own business virtually without oversight. "He is still the head of the church," said a priest based in Rome. "But he's more of a figurehead. He's not making the day-to-day decisions anymore." Insiders say the Pope, for example, increasingly rubber-stamps the recommendations of Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re, head...