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...says he had hoped, through the use of the word, to prompt discussion of its meaning, but neither he nor the six-person University committee who selected him expected the kind of reaction that ensued...
...What Title IX is talking about is taking prompt action,” she said. “It’s not that we’re not doing that. Everyone will be taken seriously and action will be taken promptly. We’re not going to ignore victims of sexual assault...
...That] is tantamount to denying 8 out of 10 victims of sexual assault access to grievance procedures,” said Wendy Murphy, an attorney who worked on the complaint and had previously worked with the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV). “Grievance procedures have to be prompt and equitable...
...books to several source materials, most notably Lynne McTaggart’s Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times. Sentences from McTaggart’s book were reproduced almost verbatim, without attribution in Goodwin’s The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. The plagiarism was serious enough to prompt publisher Simon & Schuster to destroy all remaining copies of the book in lieu of the publication of a revised, corrected version. Most disturbingly, Goodwin has admitted that she borrowed from several other sources on other occasions. This as a disappointing mistake from a Harvard overseer; Goodwin is a leader of the University?...
...connected the dots. While some pre-9/11 items of intelligence today seem like red flags, pulling together incomplete or ambiguous fragments of information into a credible and compelling analysis is more difficult than the Monday-morning quarterbacks would have you think. Especially doing so convincingly enough to prompt high-level, high-risk decisions...