Word: thompson
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...Grievance over Tenure Denial," Dec. 14, 1998) summarizes the fundamental procedural flaws-concerning both the composition of the ad hoc committee and the participation in the tenure review by Associate Provost of the University, Director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions, and Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson-at the center of my appeal. However, some of the information given to Ms. Newmyer by members of the Harvard faculty and administration is untrue or misleading and needs to be corrected...
First, according to The Crimson, Professor Thompson rejects "any suggestion that his status as a University official inflates his influence with other faculty members." Professor Thompson believes that "It is false and insulting to suggest that my colleagues in the government department would defer to me or anybody else in that way. Tenured faculty don't bow to anyone...
...Professor Thompson's objection betrays a misunderstanding of my grievance, a misconception about Harvard's own tenure review procedures, and more generally a failure to respect the ethics of procedure. As I pointed out in a letter of Nov. 9, 1998, to Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Carol J. Thompson, the good character of my colleagues in the Department of Government does not obviate the need for fair process in tenure review at Harvard (the letter, along with other pertinent documents, can be found at ). Indeed, recognition of the necessity for procedural safeguards, without reference to the quality in individual...
...next decade we could be eating broccoli not just to make Mom happy but also as a way to deliver drugs that stave off infectious diseases or that treat various chronic conditions. "The idea of vaccinating people with edible plants is very new," says Dwayne Kirk of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Ithaca, N.Y. "But it's a lot friendlier than injections...
...Leonard Guarente, a specialist on aging from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, observes that "telomeres seem to be important in getting cells to divide in vitro, but the onus is to show that short telomeres affect aging in vivo. I don't think we know that yet." --By Clare Thompson...