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...what once used to be an appointment made exclusively by top-level administrators at the College and University has been dramatically expanded to include students, faculty and staff. The result, many say, is a process that attempts to pair a candidate's strength with the needs of a particular House. "I was actually very impressed by the process we went through," writes Angus R. Burgin '02, a student member of the committee that assisted in selecting the incoming Kirkland House master, in an e-mail message. "I came out of the process feeling good...
...arrived under the pseudonym Jimmy Moran, placed in secrecy by the federal witness-protection program. The former underboss of New York City's Gambino crime family and a hit man responsible for 19 murders, Gravano became the government's most important witness against the Mob. His testimony put 37 top-level mobsters behind bars and earned him a $1 million price on his head. Flush with money from book and TV deals, he was starting a new life as a businessman far from his old Brooklyn haunts. He bought an eight-bedroom, 4,399-sq.-ft. home with stables...
...date with the world's most resolute geopolitical wallflower, but don't expect a rapid thaw in the Cold War's most intractable conflict. Pyongyang and Seoul announced simultaneously on Monday that President Kim will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in the Northern capital in the first top-level summit between the two states since their creation five decades ago. Although the announcement was clearly timed to coincide with South Korea's midterm elections - in which President Kim had been criticized by the opposition for failure to produce results in his "Sunshine Policy" of reconciliation with the North...
...reins of the NYPD over the NAACP, but law enforcement experts cite it as a revolutionary step in including a disaffected group in a department's policy-making. The Philly PD's sex-crimes unit has been the target of public ire for years, because - as former and current top-level department officials have admitted - since 1981 it has discarded about a third of its rape cases, allegedly to improve its crime statistics. The cases, according to an investigation by the Philsdelphia Inquirer, were routinely downgraded without proper review, and labeled either "not credible" or "unfounded...
...past four months, at least five top-level administrators have left Radcliffe Yard, and officials say they will purposely not replace several in hopes of eliminating jobs now handled by Harvard...