Word: three-year-old
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...confidence resolution on Summers’ leadership at its Feb. 28 meeting, so many Faculty members were expected to show up that planners were set to convene the meeting in Sanders Theater instead of the customary Faculty Room. In April, by contrast, when the first measures of the three-year-old curricular review were finally being brought to the floor, the Faculty could barely muster the quorum it needed to take votes on the legislation. (At one meeting, some absent professors had to be called to rush to the Faculty Room so that the necessary quorum could be attained.) Kirby...
...observers of Harvard’s three-year-old curricular review, it’s déjà vu. In circumstances strikingly similar to those in which the “Gang of Five” —a group of academics who revised the recommendations of the Committee on General Education last summer—was formed, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby has selected six professors to retailor a set of general education proposals that have generated little enthusiasm among faculty members.It is one of the last official acts of the deanship for Kirby...
...Glenn Reynolds of “InstaPundit.”The blog server, which is open to anyone with a “.harvard.edu” email address is larger and faster than the original server run by the Berkman Center and HLS. That three-year-old server will continue to exist alongside the new one. Neither server is officially supported by the University.“Our hope is that people will really continue to use blogs in ways that are experimental,” said Berkman Center Executive Director John G. Palfrey...
...that context, keeping Donald Rumsfeld makes sense for the President even if the calls for him to leave grow louder. Replacing Rumsfeld is unlikely to change the situation in Iraq or raise the President's popularity, because the President seems uninterested in a new approach to the three-year-old war. Little wonder that on Tuesday, the President reasserted his support for the embattled secretary, telling reporters, "I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best...
Africa's wars have a terrible habit of spilling across borders. To diplomats in Sudan, it seemed only a matter of time before the brutal three-year-old conflict in the country's Darfur province followed suit, posing particular risk to landlocked, unstable Chad to the west. And indeed, this morning, residents of Chad?s capital, N?Djamena, woke up to find a small group of rebels trying to enter the city and battling government soldiers street by street. The gunfire and shelling began at dawn and, according to a BBC reporter in N?Djamena, lasted two hours before...