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...Corporation and the Overseers have had a tenuous relationship from the outset...
...most tenuous part of Summers’ vision might be the idea of closer partnerships with the private sector...
...there will be significant downsides to moving these schools across the river, for which the University must prepare. A physical separation of graduate schools from the College will most likely worsen the existing intellectual gaps between the schools, further eroding the already tenuous connection students feel in belonging to a common university. Interdisciplinary dialogue, which Harvard has begun to promote through programs such as Mind, Brain and Behavior, will be made more difficult by moving schools away from the heart of campus. Undergraduates will find it harder to take advantage of the wealth of opportunities afforded by the graduate schools...
Rather than seeking new ways of pleasing customers, however, the Big Five music companies (AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, EMI, Sony and Vivendi Universal) are focusing on making it harder for consumers to get what they want. Although the connection between home copying and lost sales is as tenuous as it was in the '80s, the industry is pushing controversial anticopying technology into the marketplace--while entrepreneurs are assembling new business models for selling music in the digital...
...Saddam's hold on power is as tenuous as some officials in Washington claim, that is not visible in Baghdad. The government has lost control over the Kurdish north but has tightened it somewhat in the Shi'ite-dominated south and still firmly grips the Sunni center. The country has been weakened, the army especially, but Saddam remains the strongest of the weak. His control over the intelligence and security services appears unshakable. Officers' families are hostages, and the regime is very good at creating a community of guilt, in which everyone has committed crimes from corruption to execution...