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...would like to comment on a couple of points. First, as the students interviewed indicated, a proposal for improved student oversight (in the form of thesis committees formed well before the student's defense) was made to the chemistry faculty by the graduate student Quality of Life (QOL) Committee in November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chem. Dept. Priorities Reflect Larger Harvard Problem | 9/18/1998 | See Source »

...belief, though, that Harvard has some responsibility to monitor the choices available to highly driven students such as Jason, to make sure they don't find themselves in the situation he did. Greater student oversight from other faculty members is an important departmental step toward achieving this goal; recognizing faculty achievement in mentoring on a university-wide basis is also a laudable effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chem. Dept. Priorities Reflect Larger Harvard Problem | 9/18/1998 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: The contempt is running both ways between Dan Burton and Janet Reno. After Burton's House Oversight Committee finally voted to cite the attorney general for contempt for refusing to play ball with Burton, Reno was icily defiant at an afternoon Q&A, calling the citation "a form of political tampering that no prosecutor in America can accept." In this case, the tampering shouldn't run very deep. The full House would have to endorse any contempt citation, and that vote wouldn't come at least until September. The next stop? Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who would supervise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burton's Gesture of Contempt | 8/6/1998 | See Source »

While Congress debates two competing proposals to give patients a bill of rights, many states have passed their own regulations in the past several years. Those regulations can apply to only about 60% of Americans because of a 1974 federal law that exempts self-insured plans from state oversight. But Governors are lobbying hard to change that. Some of the most progressive states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahead Of The Feds: How Some States Are Already Regulating Managed Care | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...Webster Hubbell had really said, as Dan Burton's creative transcript had it, "The Riady is just not easy to do business with me while I'm here," what language was he supposed to be speaking? Did people on the staff of Burton's Government Reform and Oversight Committee actually take that to be an English sentence? Do they talk that way themselves? Outside of chairman Burton's earshot, do they say things like "The Burton are just too much of loony to conduct this investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Transcripts | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

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