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...that end, President George W. Bush’s call on Monday for Iraq to allow U.N. weapons inspectors to reenter the country was a prudent move. In the current environment, the international community is naturally more sensitive to threats—particularly those of the chemical, biological or nuclear sort...
...dangerous,” says professor Alyssa A. Goodman, who received tenure in the Astronomy department in 1999. Goodman is more outspoken than many on the subject of tenure at Harvard: in passing, she worries that her rabble-rousing while on sabbatical this year is not the most prudent move. But she is proud of changes that the Astronomy department is making in junior faculty hiring to ensure that early-career jaunts to Cambridge are not always temporary...
Many of the measures the school is taking, such as the elimination of the under-utilized Washington office, would probably be prudent with or without a financial crunch, Zeckhauser said...
...being helpful and prudent by supplying all mail rooms with gloves and masks ,” said Ursula J. Moore, manager of Harvard University Mail Services...
...course, asking to see students’ IDs before you swipe them in seems like a prudent thing to do. Why would I want to allow a stranger into my House or dorm, someone who could harm me or my neighbors? We don’t push the uncomfortable demand—we are often on the other side of the situation, trying to get in. Instead, we let almost anyone in, assuming that they are a Harvard student from another dorm...