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...long term, it is essential that the University reform its policy on sabbaticals to prevent such shortages from handicapping departments in the future. Each department should be required to have a minimum number of active professors on campus to teach undergraduates and advise undergraduate theses. That number would vary by department and should be calculated based upon the number of course offerings the department maintains and the number of students it serves, both within the department and in related departments. To ensure that the departments can meet those minimum requirements, future contracts with professors should grant departments some leeway...
Swift said her administration had to change its focus to emphasize public safety and to reform a legacy of political patronage at the airport. In one case, the chief of security at the airport was former Governor William F. Weld ’66’s driver...
...every level. So the Democrats, who usually balk at limiting the ability to sue, accepted the idea of an airline bailout - as long as it came with a mechanism to compensate victims. Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate and a longtime proponent of tort reform, pushed hard to limit how much the victims' families could claim, but he did not prevail...
...Don’t ask, don’t tell” is a backwards policy that Harvard should rightfully contest. The University should support student groups that lobby for military reform and should provide legal council for homosexual cadets who seek to challenge the military’s policy. But we must not reject the military altogether while we work towards inclusion. It may be flawed, but only because of its security can we hope for something better...
...Meanwhile, Wall Street wasn't waiting around for lawmakers to make the new rules. Investors went ahead Monday with their own brand of accounting and disclosure reform - knee-jerk selling. Companies with dark accounting clouds (Tyco, Global Crossing, Enterasys Networks), questionable earnings details (Amazon.com) or simply lots of complicated ways of making money (GE) all took baths Monday as "Enronitis" fueled a 220-point selloff of the Dow and a 55-point drop in the NASDAQ...