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...following year, continuing as an affiliate of DRCLAS. “What I’ll miss most is being at the center of that center,” Coatsworth said. But he said he is “absolutely delighted” in the choice of his successor and confident of her ability. “I think she knows Harvard extremely well, and she knows Latin America, and those are the two main qualifications,” Coatsworth said of Grindle, “she’s also a very skilled and organized administrator...
...described the goal of the continuing curricular review as bringing students in closer contact with professors, and urged that the still-undetermined successor to the Core Curriculum be grounded on student choice, rather than on specific required courses...
...Blair's top scalps included John Prescott, who remained his deputy but lost his departmental responsibilities, and Home Secretary Charles Clarke. But why did Blair demote Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to a job running the House of Commons? Perhaps Straw's efforts to cozy up to Blair's likely successor Gordon Brown rankled, but he's generally considered an effective minister with excellent relations in Washington and European capitals. His replacement is Margaret Beckett, formerly the Environment Secretary, who lacks a background in foreign policy. A Downing Street source says Blair wanted to reward Beckett for her unflashy competence. Straw...
...described the goal of the continuing curricular review as bringing students in closer contact with professors, and urged that the still-undetermined successor to the Core Curriculum be grounded on student choice, rather than on specific required courses...
...says the NCTC chief, former Navy Admiral Scott Redd, does not report directly to Fingar, but to Negroponte or, on certain sensitive matters, to President Bush. A DNI spokesman denies this is a problem. Count on all these issues to be aired both when Bush names a successor, perhaps as early as next week, and when Congress holds hearings to confirm the new director of the nation's oldest and most beleaguered spy agency...