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...Earlier this month, Faust appointed computer scientist Barbara J. Grosz, previously mentioned as a candidate for the FAS deanship, to lead Radcliffe as interim dean while Faust conducts a search for a permanent leader...
...Faust offered the position to Dean for the Physical Sciences Jeremy Bloxham, but he recently turned it down, according to the two sources and an individual informed of the decision by an FAS administrator, adding uncertainty to the search for a permanent leader of Harvard’s largest school...
...Harvard spokesman could not be reached for comment late last night, but the University has maintained a policy of not commenting on dean searches. Bloxham declined to comment on the search last week, and he and Kosslyn did not return requests for comment yesterday. Bloxham’s decision to decline the deanship was first reported last week by the undergraduate blog Gadfly...
...that tells you everything you already know about its subject. It features many talking musicological heads, falling back in insight-free awe at the composer's apparently genial genius (a refreshing exception is the crankish Jonathan Miller, who has directed many a Mozart opera). Since Mozart traveled endlessly in search of gigs - 25,000 miles all told - the director, Phil Grabsky gives us many useless out-the-window shots of his own car chugging along modern European highways as he duplicates those journeys, many sequences of contemporary citizens wandering aimlessly and inelegantly in front of buildings Mozart visited...
...wiretapping program. Trouble is, Ashcroft was in the hospital suffering from acute pancreatitis, and Acting Attorney General Comey refused to sign, because he didn't think the program was legal. So someone, quite possibly Bush, sent Gonzales and chief of staff Andrew Card rushing to Ashcroft's bedside in search of his signature. Comey got wind of this, reached Ashcroft first, and Gonzales and Card left empty-handed. (Bush, of course, went ahead with the program anyhow - after revising it and getting Justice Department sign-off - but that's another story...