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...Nobody comes inside and checks our things. We check them ourselves." General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President, rejecting the U.N.'s request to supervise Pakistan's nuclear program...
...have called for a public airing of this issue, but our request has been ignored. Instead, the University delayed its announcement by two months, and then announced its intention to pay the fund manager bonuses, with a terse statement from the treasurer asserting that it’s in Harvard’s best interests to do so. He offered a review of the pay procedures, but made no promises to stop the current practice...
...evidence in an unsophisticated way. Many of the unpublished studies they reviewed came from the drug companies themselves, and at least some of those had been carried out for a very specific purpose. Under FDA rules, any company that tests its medications on young people at the FDA's request wins an extra six months' worth of patent protection, whether or not the results are positive. Since these studies were done for financial gain and weren't reviewed by independent scientists, they probably shouldn't be given full weight. Making them public, as activists demand, might muddy the waters rather...
Meanwhile, an over-reliance on spokespeople and a skittishness about releasing even non-controversial information has made it seem like the administration is trying to control information for the sake of control alone. Even the simplest requests, ones that used to be easily and efficiently handled by relevant administrators, are frequently snatched up by communications officers who place them in what we must imagine to be a very large waste-paper basket—for we rarely see any satisfactory response. Last spring, a simple request for a list of tenure appointments over the 2002-2003 academic year, made several...
Currently, Sodhexo performs background checks on non-management level employees only by request of the subcontractor, according to Merry Touborg, spokesperson for Harvard’s Office of Human Resources...