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...that time Rogge and the other members of the Olympic committee were aware that the Canadian Olympic Association had filed an application before the court of Arbitration for Sport, a non-Olympic body, asking the court to hear its request for a second gold medal and to compel the pairs judges to testify. The court agreed to hear the case on Friday. That threatened to carry the dispute to a forum beyond the control of the committee and the I.S.U. On Friday morning the nine-member I.O.C. board ratified the I.S.U. plan by a 7-1 vote. China opposed...
...took ill before he could finish his masterpiece, the Aeneid, and on his deathbed consigned it to flames so that it would not be published without his finishing touches. Western civilization has Augustus to thank for saving the Aeneid from this fiery fate. Countermanding Virgil’s request, he had the poem edited and published against the dead poet’s wishes. The emperor’s motives, however, were less than pure; although he undoubtedly had a sense of the Aeneid’s unsurpassable greatness, the poem also served Augustus on a more practical level...
...David Pelletier in the long program surpassed that of the Russians. The French judge claimed that the organization that governs French figure skating pressured her to favor the Russians despite an obvious technical error (Sikharvlidze stumbled on the landing of a double axel jump). Canadian Olympic officials promptly requested the international sports tribunal award a gold medal to the Canadian team and on Feb. 15 their request was met. The Canadians received a gold medal though the Russians were also allowed to keep theirs...
...proposed changes, Summers’ attack on tenure is possibly the most radical. Historically cloaked in confidentiality, the tenure process has survived centuries of criticism and, most recently, legal action. Harvard’s lawyers have succeeded in keeping the process secret after a close brush with a pesky request for evidence in a lawsuit against the University. And most tenured Faculty would say it’s better that way. Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely, a 25-plus year veteran of the English department, gives a quasi-rousing justification of the current process...
Vaux said Diebold Professor of Indo-European Languages and Philology Jay H. Jasanoff, who is the linguistics department chair, notified him of the department’s intention not to request a senior professorship in Vaux’s specialty—phonology—last month. Vaux was promoted to associate professor...