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...resignation publicly—brought up differences in personality between the dean and the president as a fundamental problem between the two men.“OUR MILD-MANNERED DEAN”The portrait of Kirby as polite and conciliatory—in opposition to the less soft-spoken president—has become so familiar to professors that it is something of a cliché these days. Florence Professor of Government Gary King called him “our mild-mannered dean” in a presentation to the full Faculty at its meeting in January.Professors and administrators close...
...will feature the new look by year's end. Customers will have three zones to choose from, based on their dining needs, says Peter Dixon of Lippincott Mercer, the firm that created the new McD. Counter seating will serve eat-and-run customers. Those looking to linger will find soft lighting and plush chairs. Mingling teens can cram tables together in a flexible seating area. "It's something [McDonald's] should have done years ago," says restaurant analyst Howard Penney of Friedman Billings Ramsey. The design suggests a certain coffee chain, but Penney says it could give McDonald...
...longstanding rift between the two men is reportedly the result of a clash of styles—Summers’ blunt approach grated against Kirby’s more soft-spoken manner. Yet a working relationship between the dean of the Faculty and the president is pivotal to the dean’s ability to act as an intermediary between the Faculty and Massachusetts Hall. Their personal dispute came to a head last year over Summers’ intervention in the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR)— of which Kirby was chair—a move that many...
...British media made a great deal of the contrasts between the British and American areas of control. While American soldiers were dealing with a nascent insurgency in Baghdad, forced to wear full body armor (when available) and shelter behind high blast walls, their British counterparts were patrolling Basra in soft caps and smilingly accepting cups of tea from roadside vendors. This bonhomie was claimed to be the result of that superior understanding of Iraqi culture. Never mind that managing mostly Shi'ite Basra was a picnic compared to running the much more heterogeneous and volatile Baghdad...
...more on legal reasoning than on political doctrine. "The others were much more open about being part of a revolution," says Marc Miller, a Democrat who worked in the office and is now a law professor at Emory University. "Sam was the least of that, a good lawyer and soft-spoken." Alito sometimes frustrated staff members by examining issues from all sides, sending attorneys back to rethink memos if he didn't think they had explored them all. In one often cited memo he wrote before he entered the legal counsel's office but that is emblematic of his scholarly...