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...lofty title, but lack the access-and, as a result, often lack the ability to get things done. FEMA reports to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and some Senators, like Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, found it hard to believe Brown could not recall if he had spoken with Chertoff on that first night after he got news that New Orleans was flooding. But Brown said he regularly circumvented his boss, a career prosecutor and former federal judge, who was Bush's second choice for his post last year and didn't have the clout that members...
...scale from one to ten, how much do you want to have sex with me?” Just try to run through your “Top 5” first before moving onto lower-echelon type sluts. BTS2 Gear: Punxatawney Phil has spoken, and he says there’s going to be six more weeks of winter. That means two things. First, he’s predicted the same thing six years in a row, and maybe he should be reminded of the choices. Second, though the weather has been decidedly balmy, it?...
...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...
...supporting its students, Harvard contributes to understanding both at the global level and, more noticeably, at the undergraduate level. When writing on events such as the recent brutal house demolitions in Zimbabwe’s “Clean Up,” it helps immeasurably to have spoken directly to the victims while standing beside the rubble of their homes. Sections are brought to life by these student experiences, adding what no library book can. Bakshi took this risk. Not wishing to do so because one cannot reconcile the benefits with the potential risks is understandable, but not when...
...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...