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...hold during the stormy tenure of Lawrence H. Summers. Faust said in an interview with The Crimson this spring that Harvard needs "to undertake a planning process of academic planning in all the schools that would provide the foundation for a campaign"—a task in which deans play an essential role. Without permanent leaders to oversee the process at their respective schools, academic planning could be put off for another year, delaying the capital campaign further...
Daniel Millenson, a rising junior at Brandeis University, is one of the leaders of the Sudan Divestment Task Force—the organization that authored the original targeted divestment proposal. After reading the CCSR report, he said he found their decision baffling...
...Ph.D. in Japanese painting from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, it is a skill she has mastered completely-she breaks all the rules of subject matter in Gothic works like Pureness or 2005's Nyctalopia, which features another of her ghostly women, caught in the indecorous task of garroting a live chicken. But what truly sets Matsui apart is her frank acknowledgement of the dark personal motivations that drive her brush, often springing from the frustrations of being a woman in a Japanese art world that is as male dominated as its corporate counterpart. That sublimated struggle...
...next and most urgent task is to infiltrate terrorist groups. This is hard but not impossible. Israel, for example, has managed to set up a web of Palestinian collaborators. Last winter a would-be suicide bomber took refuge in a Palestinian house after his explosive vest failed to detonate on a bus. Unbeknown to him, the father of his host was an informer for the Israeli domestic intelligence service. The father contacted the police, and the man was arrested...
...British relations. The Scots' report pokes holes in evidence pieced together under the FBI-led investigation. "This was the first major international terrorist investigation where countries had to work together. This was a model," says Richard Marquise, the former FBI agent, now retired, who led the U.S. task force on Lockerbie. If Megrahi now goes free, it raises new questions about how efficiently American investigators can work with local authorities elsewhere to pursue terrorist suspects to all corners of the globe. To a greater extent than in the U.K., Americans involved in the case stand behind the conviction...