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...Elena Kagan should chair the ad hoc committees. She has the experience to identify quality law professors; in helping guide a committee of outside experts, she will be a more informed partner in the process as the appointment directly relates to HLS. Additionally, Kagan has more at stake than Summers to ensure that newly tenured faculty will work well at HLS and not simply fill the central administration’s larger political goals. Most importantly, this change in the tenure process must lead to an advancement of transparency. Otherwise, any possible internal bias of the HLS faculty may just...
...costly decision some analysts believe hastened the U.S.S.R.'s collapse. By the time Teller died in Palo Alto, Calif., last week, at 95, he had few friends in the scientific community. Yet he defended to the end his early backing of the bomb. "What was at stake," he told TIME in 2001, "was the real possibility that the Nazis would govern the world or, a few years later, that the Soviets would." --By Michael D. Lemonick...
...Beijing will pick up military technologies and, no doubt, some catchy consumer items to match the smoke detectors and cordless vacuum cleaners born of nasa. Above all, the piloted space program is good propaganda. "Just as England went to North America and made it British, China needs to stake its claim in space," says Xu Shijie, a spacecraft designer at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics who has worked on altitude controls for the Shenzhou...
...Pentagon is hoping to convince to replace U.S. troops in the fiery "Sunni Triangle," the situation is made more complex also by signs of opposition to such a deployment from within the Iraqi Governing Council, whose Kurdish representatives fear the consequences of their historic enemy being given such significant stake in the new Iraq. And it's not clear whether France, Germany or Russia would contribute significant forces, either. Indeed, in its operational planning right now, the Pentagon has reduced its goal of some 50,000 new foreign troops in Iraq to a more modest...
...members of the Crimson (3-0, 1-0 Ivy) had personal rivalries at stake in the contest. Zacarian was tending goal against sister Jackie Zacarian, a freshman for the Minutewomen (2-5), who coincidentally came in at the exact time that the elder Zacarian was taken out. Furthermore, Caples, a graduate of UMass, is always happy to bring home a victory against her alma mater...