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...issue to the Faculty, and over a thousand students signed a petition lobbying for the creation of a University-wide office that would supervise the grievance process.Meanwhile, a growing list of women began to come forward, with complaints ranged from inappropriate comments to what constituted, according to Government Professor Robert D. Putnam, “a crime.”A DEMAND FOR DISSOCIATIONSeniors in the class of 1984 returned to Harvard in the fall to another shock. Popular Government Professor Jorge I. Dominguez had been implicated in the second sexual harassment scandal in two years—this time...
...university-wide need to make budget cuts in response to the recent economic downturn. “Like most parts of Harvard, we’re facing the necessity of making cuts, and the narrative conference has become a very expensive undertaking,” said Nieman Foundation Curator Robert H. Giles. Giles noted that while many of the extra programs the Foundation administers are funded by special grants or gifts the narrative program is not supported by such funding. The narrative conference, which has convened annually since 2001, is a three day gathering that strives to help journalists...
...Overall the policy was probably a negative because it forced students away from more supervised gatherings into off campus ones,” said Robert A. Henderson...
...those on the right who dislike talk of reducing the need for abortion, since they view this as code for promoting forms of contraception that they view as equally immoral. To them, there is no "mystery" about when life begins. These positions are, as Obama says, "irreconcilable." (Read "Robert Gibbs: No Abortion Litmus Test...
...notion of charting military progress by counting enemy dead was championed by then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who believed in analyzing all sorts of data to determine how the war was going. The emphasis on those numbers led to some commanders' emphasizing killing over winning and to inflated body counts - which often included counting civilian casualties as enemy dead. "The Army's selection of the body count as its primary metric may not only have contributed to losing the war, but in the end it proved so morally corrosive that it led to a crisis of soul-searching...