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...occurred in class, or informally chat about the Yankees or the relative merit of the latest Pokémon movie. This daytime accessibility, combined with heavy extracurricular involvement, enables frequent student-faculty interaction. Harvard could never implement a comparable system, but it could certainly do more than the status quo...
Summers has the advantage of not being an officer of the University, at least not until July. He would therefore be able to comment on his own intentions and to endorse a living wage on principle without offering his statement as a quid pro quo or as a bribe for the protesters’ departure. Summers may be reluctant to step on Rudenstine’s toes by announcing his views before taking office, but Rudenstine must feel similar pressure to avoid policy commitments. Given the immediacy of the living wage issue, the University should not operate without anyone...
...change the status quo when you don’t need to, even if 30-odd pesky students are camped out in your office...
...Attorney Mary Jo White has kept a steady parade of witnesses moving through the courthouse as she probes whether there was a financial quid pro quo or any other illegality in Clinton's grant of clemency to Rich. Beth Dozoretz, a Democratic Party fundraiser who is close to both Clinton and Rich's ex-wife Denise, has had a second session in the grand jury, and former deputy White House counsel Bruce Lindsey, as well as Meredith Cabe, another former White House lawyer, have also appeared, according to people involved in the case. Dozoretz testified without immunity, although...
...securities fraud, was on the list of potential clemency recipients, loud protests from securities regulators and others apparently doomed the effort. White is presumably trying to establish the methodology by which Clinton decided to mete out pardons and commutations, something that could be important in proving a quid pro quo in the Rich case - if there was one. A spokesman for Milken said neither Milken nor his lawyer would comment...