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MEANWHILE IN ECUADOR ... Punctuality Pays A nationwide synchronization of watches marked the start of a campaign to stamp out the country's legendary tardiness. Locals run on what is referred to as "Ecuadorian time," meaning most people turn up for appointments at least 15 minutes late. The civic group behind the scheme puts the cost of this lax approach at more than $700 million a year. The campaign has the backing of President Lucio Gutierrez, below, who is often as much as three hours late for meetings...
State Representative Rachel Kaprielian, D—29th Middlesex, told the Toad crowd that “the tsunami is coming to stamp out smoking...
Under the old system, candidates receiving two-thirds approval by a vote of the full HLS faculty were then passed along for a presidential stamp of approval—which rarely went against the faculty’s vote. Under the new system—which is in line with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Kennedy School of Government tenure processes—Summers will now appoint an ad hoc committee to review each case brought for tenure review. This committee, also chaired by Summers, will include experts from outside HLS who can objectively judge a candidate?...
...president has always had final say over appointments,” said Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried. “This is more of a matter of whether this will be the president putting a rubber stamp on what the faculty says or making his own decision with...
That's an overstatement. For one thing, no one expects the flow of terrorist money to be cut off entirely, given the inventiveness of funding organizations and the fact that they often deal in cash. "It is sort of like trying to stamp out crabgrass," says Robert Jordan, U.S. ambassador to Riyadh. "As soon as you stamp one of them out, something springs up somewhere else under a different name...