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...that Summers seems to lack—if Tuesday’s Faculty meeting is any indication.Summers’ five years of leadership have left the Faculty “divided, demoralized, and dispirited,” English Department Chair James Engell said at Tuesday’s session, echoing the sentiments of other professors who spoke at the meeting.And that sense of demoralization has led professors to launch perhaps the most potent challenge to presidential power in recent memory. Some Summers watchers say that Harvard’s 27th president has asserted more control over the individual schools...
...made it very clear that this [course] is not a queer therapy session,” said McCarthy...
...Throughout the contentious session, Summers stressed his willingness to work closely with the Faculty during the search process as part of his efforts to rebuild his tenuous relationship with some professors...
...days, Senate Democrats and the Judiciary Committee's Republican chairman, Arlen Specter, have fired off nine letters to the Justice Department and the White House demanding information on the domestic-spying program. At Senate hearings last week, the former head of the National Security Agency refused even in closed session to say how many phones had been tapped in the U.S. This reticence comes after conflicting public estimates from President Bush ("a few" U.S. phones) and his Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff ("thousands...
Organizers of the demonstration said that only four of the students at the event were genuinely there to learn about the Army, and that about fifteen placard-wearing protesters attended the session...