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...along with vocal support and the weapon that strikes Harvard's heel: money. Already, the Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard has received $500,000 from alumnae that it plans to hold in escrow until the University has tenured an acceptable number of women--specifically, the standpoint set by the University report of 1970. And the senior class has established the Alternative Senior Gift Fund with the same criterion for its release...
...underlings hard and treating former friends and colleagues shabbily. She raised eyebrows by ordering two pilots co-produced by her boyfriend, former Letterman executive producer Robert Morton, and giving one of them, Over the Top (a sitcom starring Tim Curry), a choice Tuesday-night time period. Worse, from the standpoint of Hollywood's dealmakers, she is perceived as having been stripped of real power by her bosses, Iger and Disney chairman Michael Eisner...
...familiar with his thinking, Robertson, the former minister and presidential candidate, now 67, wants to direct his resources to his religious enterprises, including Regent University, the educational institution he founded in Virginia Beach, Va. The News Corp. deal will give him the wherewithal to do that. "From a programming standpoint, Robertson and Murdoch may be at opposite ends of the spectrum," says Bruce Leichtman, a media analyst with the Yankee Group. "But as a business proposition, there are many synergies. This deal makes a lot of sense strategically." Now all it has to do is pass muster with...
...think it's highly unfair for the Ec10 department to use an overly biased Republican standpoint because it's going to affect us no matter what we do in economics. People who don't have a strong background in terms of knowing more about the welfare system...will be strongly biased against welfare," said Chinwe Onyeagoro...
...want to continue contributing to the community. While various faculty members contend that point, there is consensus that retiring can be, in the words of one professor, like "falling off a cliff." With that in mind, the FAS has focussed on making retirement more attractive from a non-financial standpoint: Based in part on departmental discretion, emeriti faculty can teach and serve on various committees. They also have offices and, if they have grants, labs in which to research. They are also eligible for research funds...