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...right candidate,” he writes.The pressure on the search committee to select the right individual for the University’s highest office is great.“People are counting on you to do it right,” Slichter says. “You owe it to this magnificent University and all the people who inhabit it now, and in the future, and in the past, to make this result be something that everyone is proud of and feels, ‘Boy, that was a Harvard job they did in the selection...
...hand of the dean at the end of the graduation ceremony,” said Kremer. “It is a small victory for me.”FIGHTING AND FORGINGKremer, a native of Israel, began his fight against ALS at the place to which he said he owes everything—Harvard Business School.ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative illness that causes patients to lose control over their voluntary muscles. There are over 30,000 Americans living with ALS, and most individuals diagnosed with the illness have a lifespan of three to five years. Kremer chose not to leave...
...finally, the group to which I owe the most profuse apologies: the Ivy presidents...
...politicians owe as much to another country's government as Nouri al-Maliki owes to the Bush Administration. In April, strong U.S. backing catapulted al-Maliki into his job as Iraq's Prime Minister after a two-month impasse over the nomination of his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Sunni and Kurdish politicians say U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad leaned heavily on them to back al-Maliki. "Khalilzad made it clear there was only one man on Washington's wish list," a senior Kurdish leader told TIME on condition of anonymity. "Al-Maliki cannot have any doubts about...
...snarly attitude. When he sang to a lover (would-be or ex), to someone who crowded him by trying to be a friend or a fan, the protest in his tone turned personal and hostile. ("Just because you like my stuff, he famously said, "doesn't mean I owe you anything."") Long before he was a folk rocker, Dylan was the folk Rickles...