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...could reasonably construe the incident as a success or an example of effective governance. It’s more of a taint on the Board’s reputation rather than on the university,” said Richard Chait, a specialist in university governance at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education...
...drop the suggestion entirely. She is not legally bound to provide proof of the implication or to repeat it if the case moves to trial. In a county of 42,000 people, many of whom are acquainted with the alleged victim or her family, the insinuation alone could taint any prospective jury, requiring that the trial be moved elsewhere...
...financial wizard behind the curtain. It's a role Oliver played for Bush in 2000 and one he is reprising this year, having just moved from the Republican Party to be deputy finance chairman for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. Being outside the White House, Oliver avoids any taint of seeming to influence policy. And yet he carries the weight of being close to top presidential adviser Karl Rove and of speaking for the President...
...ordinary Palestinians rests on a combination of factors. Its foundations are in the mosques and among the clergy, and its extensive social welfare networks have provided such basic services as health and daycare where the PA has often failed. By staying out of the PA it has avoided the taint of corruption associated with the authority in the minds of ordinary Palestinians, and the terror strikes conducted by its armed wing in Israeli cities have answered the desire for vengeance among many ordinary Palestinians, particularly in the embittered and impoverished refugee camps of Gaza. The failure of the Oslo peace...
...also comes after a year in which some worried that a high-profile standoff between University President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel West would taint Harvard’s image among prospective black students...