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...have different definitions of the word “abnormal,” but I find it more abnormal that the President of the French Republic would call one of his constituents a stupid bastard. This incident represents a pattern of behavior wholly unfitting to the French presidency??a pattern of behavior that is costing Sarkozy credibility at home and potentially abroad...
...former UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, difficulties in pursuing policy arose when high-level University positions—among them the College deanship, the FAS deanship, and the University presidency??turned over in the middle of his tenure, yielding, in his words, “administrators unfamiliar with their new roles, and the Undergraduate Council...
...shared an all-out aversion to the ‘dehumanizing,’ all-pervasive power of modern corporations, and criticized the arrogance and insensitivity of the world that this drive for abundance had produced,” voted fiscal conservative Ronald Reagan into the presidency??twice—in the 1980s. The Peace Corps and groups like it were the second-most popular choice of employment after college for the Class of 1966, when these occupations also qualified for draft deferments from the war, but members of that class and others of the 1960s...
...oppose it, they are in a position to say ‘What’s that about?’ before you really have a chance to explain yourself.”She added: “This is a moment that is meant to encompass a whole presidency??a decade, say—of what I think is important and the values that are going to motivate me and shape every single thing I do.”Faust’s priorities echoed those outlined by former president Lawrence H. Summers in his 2001 installation...
...list echoed those of her predecessor, Derek C. Bok, who set out to focus on the curricular review, Allston, and science policy during his interim term last year. Faust, who took office on July 1, also outlined a theme that could figure as a defining mark of her presidency??“to work to become a university known more for bridges and less for walls.” “One of my paramount hopes for the coming years,” she wrote, “is that, more and more, when...