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University President Lawrence H. Summers and Law School Dean Elena Kagan, in a joint statement issued early yesterday afternoon, acknowledged that Tribe committed “a significant lapse in proper academic practice” in the composition of the 1985 book. But Summers and Kagan said they are “firmly convinced that the error was the product of inadvertence rather than intentionality...
Hobbes Professor of Cognition and Education Howard Gardner yesterday called for greater transparency from top Harvard officials, writing in an e-mail that the University statement on Tribe “leaves observers as well as those within the institution confused about what is and is not proper behavior, and what consequences follow from behavior deemed inappropriate.” In a brief phone conversation yesterday, Gardner declined to comment further...
...says, may be through computer simulations of a full-scale nuclear war--a goal he thinks can eventually be achieved. Brockway Mac-Millan, a retired vice president at Bell Laboratories who directed the development of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile software system in the early 1970s, agrees. "Given the proper tools and enough time," he says, "I think the software problems can be solved." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
...overseas professional meetings is only tax deductible if the location can be justified and if conventiongoers actually do work that is relevant to their jobs. "England is the fountainhead of American law," observed Ernest Guy, who heads the A.B.A.'s meetings department and who apparently knows how to lay proper legal groundwork. Still, the A.B.A. was concerned that the festive and well-reported convention could lead to criticism of attorneys for dodging taxes. Shortly before the departure for London, in splendid lawyerly fashion, the organization asserted to members that it neither affirmed nor denied that the convention...
...adversary now--cancer. How are you going to deal with that these next 3 years? A. I'm going to do exactly what they've told me to do. The doctor himself was a little concerned because he'd used the term that I "have cancer." He says the proper thing is I "had cancer." That particular polyp, called adenoma type, is one that, if it is left, begins to develop cancerous cells. Well, this one had. But it's gone, along with the surrounding tissue. It had not spread. So I am someone who does not have cancer...