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...settlement. This week she will testify before a congressional committee as it debates whether there needs to be greater federal oversight of the booming cruise industry, which served 11.2 million passengers last year, up 63% since 2000. Although the vast majority of passengers are American, cruise ships steer around most U.S. laws by registering in foreign countries. Because of murky jurisdiction issues, the companies report crimes to the FBI on a voluntary basis...
Spangler added that he felt Summers’ immediate successor, former University president Derek C. Bok, would steer the University well in the interim...
...Everyman Meals: The Supermarket Diet This plan offers up real food for real people. Here, home cooking is your best friend, and fast food is the devil. Attention, shoppers: cruising the right grocery aisle is the not-so-secret weapon. Steer toward the produce and away from sugary treats. BUZZWORDS: Boot Camp; Pedometer Power...
...not.Ellison, who is on leave this year, said he has no plans to attend the upcoming Faculty meeting on Feb. 28 where Summers will face a new no-confidence motion.‘SERIOUSLY WRONG’Ellison recommends that colleagues steer clear of serving as a dean under Summers.“Bill Kirby is an extraordinary administrator,” Ellison said yesterday. “For him not to flourish in the role of dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences indicates that something is seriously wrong.”The Crimson reported that Summers forced...
...1996.Under the proposal presented at yesterday’s Faculty Council meeting, professors might become decision-makers—rather than advisers—in the dean search process.Such a proposal would take away the president’s power to use his dean selections as a way to steer the University’s course. But, according to some Harvard historians, that was a power that presidents never actually held.“Presidents think they will be able to shape the University through their appointments,” Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches...