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...Werker said he maintains that according to his plan, businesses would not have free reign over the areas they would govern...
...Fujimori was addressing Japanese journalists via a speakerphone because he's currently forbidden to leave his home in the Chilean capital of Santiago, where he's fighting extradition to Peru. Lima wants Fujimori to stand trial on charges including corruption and sanctioning death squads during his decade-long reign as president. The son of Japanese immigrants to Peru, Fujimori was an obscure agricultural engineer before he won the presidency in 1990, upsetting the popular novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. As president he was as loved for rescuing Peru's economy from near collapse and ending a violent Maoist insurgency...
...inclusion of every course across all departments, a terrible piece of pork barrel legislation rather than a meaningful attempt at casting undergraduate education. Thanks to the enormous political clout professors had won from Summers’ downfall, neither the president nor other administrators had the power to reign in these partisan efforts...
...fact, despite arriving at a broken University and simply being asked to pick up the pieces, they too were men in a hurry, bringing to fruition in one year what was not possible during Summers’ stormy reign...
...Unlike places like Texas—where big athletics seemed to exist with virtual free reign, able to do what they wanted with little oversight from university officials—sports programs at Harvard were often in close contact with the the upper levels of administration, perhaps indicative of their relatively low stature...