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...Knowles’ great missions as dean was to recruit more faculty members, but he fell far short of his own goals in this regard. The next dean will be challenged to do better. One would imagine a dean from the humanities would complement Summers’ attractive powers among scientists with a talent for bringing in excellent professors in the arts...
...secret where the ex-Taliban lives. There are a few loyal Pashtun guards at the gate, their weapons hidden but ready. Khaksar says he heard recently that Mullah Omar and a few other Taliban ministers were trying to recruit a hit man to finish him off. "The Taliban have offered a lot of money, and if the assassin dies in completing his mission, the money will go to the assassin's family," Khaksar says. He sits at a desk with a picture of the late Northern Alliance hero, Ahmed Shah Massoud, on his desk, perhaps insurance in case the current...
...Fetisov, who says he was privately recruited by President Vladimir Putin, took the job, and he now has to struggle with both the past and the present problems of Russian hockey. He must negotiate with the same hockey authorities who tried to derail him--and who still hate him for opening the floodgates out of Russia to the riches of the NHL for many players after him. Those players are now millionaire hockey stars, and although they owe their careers to Fetisov's bravery, he has nothing with which to recruit them for the Russian Olympic team...
...Harvard. But if the department knew that its new hires would all go on sabbatical in three years, it should have planned accordingly by spreading out the hires and hiring more junior faculty to pick up the slack next year. Although there’s little time left to recruit for next year, it should do what it can to fill out its roster. To alleviate the shortage in the short-term, all of the University’s undergraduates would be indebted to any of the 18 who would consider postponing their leaves...
...fighting at Gardez will not have helped Karzai's efforts to recruit a larger peacekeeping force. The interim leader has urged the United Nations Security Council to expand the current force of almost 5,000 deployed exclusively in Kabul, in order to help the new government project its authority beyond the capital. But although President Bush offered U.S. help in training a new national army (when such a force becomes possible), he remained politely but firmly opposed to committing any American troops to peacekeeping duties. And Thursday Britain's Tony Blair, whose soldiers are leading the Kabul mission, also rebuffed...