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...shared a list of 30 candidates with the Overseers. But at the regularly scheduled Feb. 4 meeting, no names were discussed, one overseer said last week. The overseer asked not to be named because the process is considered confidential. The Overseers are often seen as a “rubber stamp” in Harvard governance, according to Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70, author of “Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience.” “You only hear about the Overseers when they do something exceptional,” he said yesterday...
Give the folks at NASA this much - they know how to close ranks. Astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak was arrested this week and charged with attempted murder after driving 900 miles from Houston to Orlando, Fla., allegedly carrying a knife, a BB gun, pepper spray, latex gloves and rubber tubing-wearing a diaper all the while so she wouldn't have to stop en route-and assaulting a romantic rival in a parking lot. After all that, NASA spokesman James Hartsfield assured the press: "Her status as an astronaut is currently unchanged." If crazy doesn't get you bumped from...
...security apparatus: Deputy Premier Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. The morning after the dictator's death, the Speaker of the National Parliament - who, under the Constitution, was to become acting President - was dismissed and arrested. The Constitution did not allow new Acting President Berdymukhammedov to run in the February election, but the rubber-stamp Parliament immediately amended it to allow...
...Katyusha rockets and Kalashnikov rifles, however, weren't on the menu. The Middle Eastern equivalent of the diplomatic rubber-chicken dinner consists of about a dozen Arab courses of grilled meats, hummus, and stuffed vegetables served in a brightly lit hall, male guests outnumbering women by around...
...were in Cambridge for the meetings. It is now unclear when a decision might be made. The Board of Overseers has not turned down a search committee’s presidential recommendation in well over a century, leading some observers to label the confirmation vote a “rubber stamp.” When the search committee selected Lawrence H. Summers in 2001, overseers said after the confirmation vote—unanimous in support of Summers’ appointment—that they played an active role in the decision. Houghton would not elaborate on the role the Overseers...