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...student and faculty bodies in perfunctory consultations. This tradition lies in stark contrast to the modern norm of comprehensive search committees, which in Harvard-lingo would include Corporation members, Overseers, faculty, staff, and students dealing with the nitty-gritty of the search process; the Corporation’s final seal of approval (as a solo act, that is) would become the perfunctory gesture, rubber stamping the collaborative process it had been forced to engage...
...hate penguins. I used to pride myself on being an animal lover. I used to greet my conservative friends with diatribes against arctic oil drilling. I used to laud the proud Alaskan moose and the Pacific seal at City Hall every Earth Day. But no more. Damn penguins. Two hours of penguins mating and dying is enough to make you eat veal, stop cutting the rings on your soda can packaging, and dump oil into the Caspian sea. I’m an unwilling convert, but perhaps with a cheap handle of rum and a bottle of Coke...
...challenge of securing the loading and movement of containers is formidable. Anyone can lease one of the many millions of containers that circulate around the globe, then pack it with up to 65,000 lbs. of items, close the door and lock it with a seal that costs half a dollar. The box then enters the transportation system, with all the providers working diligently to get it where it needs to go as quickly as possible. Accompanying documents usually describe the contents in general terms. If the box moves through intermediate ports before it enters the U.S., the container manifest...
...hostess”) has her reasons. “Larry Summers is not someone that I want to represent me,” she said. “He’s not someone that I want to represent Harvard, not someone that I want to represent the seal, Veritas.” But Goodman did not only spit bile about Summers. At one point, she managed to get in a back-handed compliment to the Man. “At least his case of foot-and-mouth disease is not as bad as the nation’s president...
...thinking about you and Dr. King. If there is anything I can do to help, please feel free to call on me." Mrs. King replied that she'd be grateful for anything he could do. The next day his brother Bobby was calling the sentencing judge to seal a deal that would end with King's release...