Word: oversights
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Although the course is no longer offered, the department still lists it as a concentration requirement—an oversight that Deanna Dalrymple, History of Art and Architecture Department Administrator, says will be “clarified in revisions in the spring...
...know how much of the money Harvard gives them goes to their workers. This is especially true when the contracted workers are not unionized, like the guards employed by SSI. Less information is given about SSI guards in the Katz report than any type of worker. Oversight is not going to be easy...
...first thought was this: Christmas falls on a Tuesday this year. The next day is Dec. 26, a Wednesday—the day of the week when most midweek films are released. It is also Boxing Day. Boxing Day! How big an oversight was this? I mean, here is Ali, supposedly a very good movie about perhaps the greatest fighter who ever lived, and you release it the day before Boxing Day! If you’re going to release it a day before, do it in only one theater at an obscure locale where Ali actually fought?...
These new regulations are all the more troubling because a concerted attempt was made to avoid any sort of oversight. The rule went into effect before it was published and the normal period of public comment was avoided by invoking a rarely-used exemption clause. By bypassing the other branches of government in promulgating this rule, Ashcroft also displayed an astonishing disregard for the concept of a separation of powers...
Trumpeting the scientific breakthroughs that might accompany such research—cures for Parkinson’s! For Alzheimer’s! For diabetes! For mortality itself!—the usual voices are clamoring for a limited ban on reproductive cloning, accompanied by increased government oversight and support for the “therapeutic” variety. These forward-looking types—The New York Times and the Washington Post, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, the pharmaceutical companies who stand to make a killing, quite literally—envision a world where it will be perfectly legal...