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...past, the concern with students was not at all couched in terms of ceding power, it was a matter of confidentiality,” says Kane, who also sits on the Ad Board...
...shattered Presidential Palace seemed a fitting, if not historically poignant, backdrop for former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton's first joint visit to Haiti. Both men played pivotal roles in the Caribbean nation's crumbling politics and economy. Clinton returned democratically elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in 1994 after a military coup had ousted him; a decade later, the Bush Administration flew Aristide out of Haiti and into exile. (See pictures from Haiti's devastating earthquake...
...surge of U.S. troops in 2007 bought just enough security and time to give democracy one more shot. Superficially, Iraqi politicians appear to have learned the lesson. The major parties have joined broad "national unity" coalitions. But the leadership is the same, as are the problems: how to share power, oil and land. Votes may not be fully counted until late March, and no coalition is expected to win enough seats to form a government on its own. Iraqis are bracing for weeks of backroom dealing. Meanwhile, U.S. combat troops are scheduled to leave by August. Maybe Iraq will have...
...seven-member Corporation has largely retained the same structure since 1640. Members still serve for life and wield great influence over the University’s direction. Most importantly, the Corporation has sole hiring and firing power over University presidents, an important role in an era when Harvard’s presidents have served as public figures...
Abernathy and Lewis said that much of the Corporation’s problems are “structural” and, until the organization undergoes reform, the Corporation will only share power voluntarily with the “powerless” Overseers...