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Last Tuesday’s speech on anti-Semitism and Sunday night’s showing of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off may seem to have nothing to do with one another, but both contrast favorably with the distant and aloof tenure of Summers’ predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine. As president of Harvard, Rudenstine was well-known for increasing the university’s endowment. That’s it. His presence at the freshman barbecue in the fall of 2000 served only to highlight his complete absence from campus life throughout the rest of that year...
...after weeks of police surveillance. Spanish Interior Ministry officials said the couple were carrying arms in their car. Múgica and Olarra are accused of numerous attacks and killings in Spain. Olarra is thought to have become ETA's military leader after the arrest in France of his predecessor, Francisco Javier García Gaztelu, in February last year. C.I.S. Wasted Time AIDS is spreading faster in the countries of the former Soviet Union than anywhere else, and time has been lost in combatting the disease because the magnitude of the epidemic was underestimated, according to a U.N. report...
Things looked very different little more than two years ago, when Lafley, 55, took over P&G, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. His gruff predecessor, Durk Jager, had launched a crash course to shake up the notoriously insular, slow-footed company but was forced out after just 17 months of expensive product launches that left consumers yawning. P&G had repeatedly failed to deliver expected earnings, and its stock tumbled 50% in six months. With most of the company's resources and best people focused on developing the next blockbuster new product, sales for the established brands were stagnating, market share...
...American attack on Iraq. But what would really be the effect on Arab populations of seeing other Arabs liberated from oppression? Far from fighting to the last Iraqi, the people of that tortured society will surely dance on the regime's grave. I wish the Bush Administration and its predecessor had given more serious support to internal and external Iraqi opposition than has been the case. But it's a safe assumption that Iraqis will be grateful to whoever is responsible for securing their freedom. Perhaps that is what truly concerns some of our Gulf War allies: that among...
Kirby’s predecessor as Dean, Jeremy R. Knowles, also drew attention to Gross’ track record in faculty governance, citing his commitment to undergraduate education...