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...Nader. In Texas, Democrats sent an e-mail reminding party members that by law they couldn't sign a Nader petition if they had voted in the primary. In Arizona, where a poll shows Nader pulling what could be a decisive 7% of the vote, state Democratic chairman Jim Pederson says the party has assembled a team of lawyers to look at every one of the signatures Nader collects. "Our first objective is to keep him off the ballot," Pederson says. "This vote is about George Bush and John Kerry, and we think it distorts the entire electoral process...
Within a year of her tenure, Pederson worked with Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles to nearly double the offerings of the Freshman Seminar program from 33 to 62 courses, greatly increasing the ability of first-years to build meaningful relationships with members of the Faculty...
Many professors at Harvard come to know their students through informal contexts. Although the Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan Pederson encourages professors to eat in the dining halls with students for free, to attend Faculty dinners and to be accessible through office hours, some professors take their efforts to the next level, inviting students to socialize them at their homes at dinner parties or other forms of debauchery. Some of these parties are legendary—Harvard College Professor and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar’s “Fairy Tales?...
Other people are troubled not by what the Bush ruling may do to the science but by what it may do to America's standing in the world. The U.S. was embarrassed once this summer when stem-cell researcher Roger Pederson of the University of California, San Francisco--fed up with all the hand-wringing and rulemaking--was seduced overseas by Cambridge University in England. This, of course, may be just an isolated defection rather than the start of a national brain drain. "I'm not packing," quips Thomson, who pronounced himself pleased that the feds would finally make some...
...There's no reason not to try," Pederson said...