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...last time that University Hall became the scene of an anti-administration revolt, the ripples extended all the way to the college applicant pool. This time, though, experts and applicants alike believe that history won’t repeat itself.In 1969, amid nationwide anti-war protests, students forcefully occupied the hall. That incident was one factor leading to the resignation of then-President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 two years later.From 1969 to 1970, applications to Harvard College dropped by 6 percent, and again dropped 12 percent the following year.Last month, University Hall was once more the site...
...full congressional break with Bush on the ports deal is for the White House to offer Congress a chance to review and oversee the sale. But that is a step the Administration has continued to rule out. And so the President's party is poised for an unprecedented revolt...
...pass judgment on the matter,” Houghton wrote.But coming the same day that Summers announced his resignation—a decision that, he said, was reached last week—Houghton’s letter was too late to head off the mounting Faculty revolt against Summers.Abernathy, the professor to whom Houghton’s letter was addressed, declined to comment last night. He did release his initial letter to Houghton, dated Jan. 24, which concluded, “The story, if true, is damning to Harvard.”The recent outcry over the Shleifer matter underscored...
...President Robert Mugabe lost a nation-wide referendum on constitutional reform. The defeat was a thinly veiled criticism of Mugabe’s leadership and a revolt against a proviso which would have indefinitely extended his rule. Mugabe’s response was vicious. He intimidated opposition and stacked parliament and the courts with his supporters, doubled the police force, formed academies to militarize youth, and encouraged renegade gangs to enforce his policies...
...distribution deal was set to expire after the release of Pixar's Cars this June. Even worse, the companies nearly split in a War of the Roses--style divorce as friction mounted between Jobs and Eisner over terms of a new partnership. That fracture helped ignite a shareholder revolt against Eisner. When Iger took over, one of his first calls was to Jobs...