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...itinerary. Bok wrote in a Tuesday e-mail that his Italian outing was “the one prior commitment that I told the Corporation I could not break when they asked me to serve.” Last February, shortly before Lawrence H. Summers announced his intention to resign his post as president, the Harvard Corporation—the University’s executive board—asked Bok to serve as Harvard’s interim chief as the school searched for a new leader. Because of the trip, Bok might not be on campus when the faculty...
...looming over the College, Harvard students find themselves in a rather awkward position. We know the Core’s days are numbered, but the changes are happening too slowly—and too unpredictably—to realistically plan for life under general education. So, alas, we must resign ourselves to being the last generation of students to live by the rules of the Core—but we shouldn’t have to. For many years now, students have been able to take cross-listed departmental courses to satisfy Core requirements. Cross-listing makes sense...
...caused close to €1 million in damage. Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky says that the true nature of the violence was revealed on Monday night when rioters laying siege to the state TV building presented police with demands they wanted aired. "They said, 'We want Gyurcsány to resign,'" Demszky told Time, "and we want Fradi put back into the first division.'" Budapest's Ferencvaros (Fradi) Football Club was downgraded to the second division of the football league in July, a result its more violent supporters, famous for their nationalism and anti-Semitism, blamed on Hungary's Socialist...
...primary defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman, leading him to run as an independent. After they relentlessly derided Senator Hillary Clinton as calculating, overly cautious and lacking true liberal bona fides, she hired an adviser just to deal with them and even demanded that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resign. Coincidence? Moderate Democrats say it with remorse, conservatives with glee, but the conventional wisdom is bipartisan: progressive bloggers are pushing the Democratic Party so far to the left that it will have no chance of capturing the presidency...
...creates an appearance of conflict,” Rubin, who is chairman of Citigroup’s executive committee, wrote in the letter. “Although no conflict currently exists and while I would have liked to remain involved, I have with great regret concluded that I should resign from the board at this time...