Word: rescindability
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Although Harvard College’s decision to reimburse student groups for the “gift tax” is a welcome development, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) refusal to rescind the tax or lend formal support to the College’s reimbursement is deeply troubling. The tax is unfair and, contrary to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles’ justification for his action, could be easily rolled back. Knowles should reverse course on the gift tax, which is symptomatic of the apathy toward student life that seems to have gripped University...
...positions might not be secure in the long run. In an e-mail addressed to the “faculty and staff” of the department, Deborah R. Clain, director of administration and finance at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, said the layoffs had been rescinded. But, she added, “this does not mean that there will be no layoffs due to the robotics automation of the cage washing function, but rather that an eventual decision about this will be made after further review and consideration.” The e-mail was forwarded...
...colleagues have not dealt with diploma revocation, although it may have happened sometime in Harvard’s history. But if a serious incident of fraud were to occur, Kane thinks the University could act. “One option available to the faculty would be to rescind the awarded degree,” he says. “This is a very rare situation,” says Harvard College Admissions Director Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73. What’s the more likely scenario? “For something to change...
...keep him out. He also claims that many others donated to these charities without repercussion. The motive of the U.S. authorities? Ramadan says it's to keep him from voicing his criticisms of U.S. policy in the Arab world to American audiences, adding that the original U.S. decision to rescind his visa was probably influenced by critics in Europe. In France, a secular state with a large Muslim population, detractors accuse him of concealing radical messages in moderate-sounding pronouncements. So, still no U.S. visa. "Is this Administration now going to say, 'We got bad information, he can come...
...book I've ever read, and which almost instantly made him the premier literary novelist in his age bracket. You might also possibly remember Franzen as the man who rather too honestly expressed his ambivalence over being chosen for Oprah Winfrey's book club, prompting Winfrey to honestly, unambivalently rescind her invitation to come on her show...