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...private, however, the atmosphere inside the writing program is less cheerful. On Sept. 20, preceptors met with administrators—Jehn, McCann, and Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam—at the Faculty Club and in the Barker Center for a one-day retreat...
...according to three members of the program, administrators failed to provide that reassurance at the September retreat...
...management guru, pushes his newest book, The Fall of the Human Intellect, one of 10 he has written over the decades ("Every word, between 4 and 6 in the morning," he later explains. "After 6, it's not worth reading.") He invites the audience to come to a YPO retreat in January at his Vedanta Academy, 67 miles (108 km) southeast of Mumbai...
...course, Harvard’s retreat from the classy may be obscured by what would seem to be the larger problem with this purchase. Although HUDS has not disclosed the price it paid for this substantial acquisition, these televisions and kiosks usually retail for a combined minimum of about $75,000. For an organization that continually cites lack of funds as a justification for its refusal to expand dining hours and options, such a purchase seems to reflect a poor sense of priority. Even though these monitors and kiosks were purchased with proceeds from retail operations designated for special projects...
...sifted and resifted so many times, that they now arrive at the court in highly specific cases affecting few, if any, real people. And it's not clear that Roberts wants to alter that trend. His speeches on the judicial role suggest a man more interested in the steady retreat of the court from public policy than in a right-wing revolution. Unless the Roberts court umpires another disputed presidential election (à la Bush v. Gore in 2000--a long shot, to say the least), the left-right division will matter mainly in the realm of theories and rhetoric, dear...