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Woodberry will become the new House administrator in Pfoho—a position somewhat analogous to that of the assistant to the Masters in most Houses—with oversight of House events and finances...
...RESIGNED. KAREN JURGENSEN, 55, editor of USA Today, and HAL RITTER, 52, the paper's managing editor of news; in the wake of a report that blamed poor editorial oversight at the newspaper for failing to uncover deceptions in the work of star reporter Jack Kelley; in McLean, Virginia. Kelley, who resigned in January, was found to have fabricated parts of at least 20 stories and plagiarized at least 100 passages since...
...meeting of President Bush's top aides, according to a former senior National Security Council official familiar with the session, Vice President Dick Cheney pushed forcefully for the payout, saying, "We are nickel-and-diming the I.N.C. when they are providing critical intelligence" on Iraq's WMD. Oversight of Chalabi's information operation was shifted from the skeptics at State to the Pentagon, where his champions included Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz...
...purpose of the Sept. 11 commission is to determine exactly how sloppy detective work, weak executive oversight and a series of intelligence failures let the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon happen more than two years ago. This is such an essential aim that the panel should have access to whatever—and whomever—it wishes with as few restrictions as possible to effectively gauge the circumstances surrounding the terrorist attacks. In the end, the panel will have to submit a report of its findings to the American people explaining where and how their...
After absent-mindedly omitting undergraduates from the planning committee charged with investigating the potential for undergraduate housing in Allston, Harvard’s central administration has recently tried to make amends. Two student representatives were promptly added to the committee once the oversight was pointed out, and last month—at the urging of those representatives—Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby invited students to participate in an online survey which attempts to gauge what students might want out of an Allston campus. We are pleased with the new approach; Kirby finally appears to understand that...