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...highest governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) asked historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich to take a leading role in the search for the school’s next chief, even as questions linger about outgoing FAS Dean William C. Kirby’s sudden resignation.Four people close to Harvard’s central administration have told The Crimson that University President Lawrence H. Summers forced Kirby to resign. But inside Leverett House Dining Hall last night, Summers declined to address reports that he fired the FAS dean.Asked whether he forced Kirby to resign, Summers said...
...shame that he has been treated the way he has—with rumors last semester that he would be fired and with this sudden resignation,” Sociology Professor Mary C. Waters wrote in an e-mail. “It does not bode well for finding a strong person willing to put themselves into a position where they could be mistreated this...
...policymakers who once might have glossed over her frustration as a side effect of sudden change are thinking twice. "Katrina showed government's failure to respond, and we can't afford those failures again," says Republican Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota. A quarter of the 24 million people now enrolled in Medicare Part D are "dual eligibles," people who qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare. In other words, they are among the poorest and frailest people in the country. More than 70% of them make less than $10,000 a year; 372,000 of them have Alzheimer's. Republicans realize...
...until the 1980s--but when it hit, it hit hard. Even cocaine apologists admit that the drug is dangerously addictive and sometimes lethal. Coke-triggered strokes and heart attacks--both of which can occur in people with no known cardiovascular disease--are the real deal, caused by the sudden elevation of blood pressure and spasms of vessels. "The damage can be done suddenly and acutely," says Raicht, "or slowly and chronically...
...going to protect the American people.? But he still has the burn marks, he suggests, from an earlier excess of scruple. ?At one point in time the government got accused of not connecting the dots.? He recalled the debates over intelligence failures after 9/11. ?And all of a sudden, we start connecting the dots through the Patriot Act and the NSA decision, and we're being criticized...