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...Yale, Brown, and a number of other schools, which offer short contracts that can be renewed contingent on the school’s need and the lecturer’s performance, but with no expectation of long-term employment. This would allow Harvard to reap the benefits of having top-level teachers who are not constantly forced out by rules, while preventing the development of secondary faculty that effectively has tenure.The curricular review’s proposals will plug gaping holes in Harvard’s curriculum by providing broad Courses in General Education. But if this plug...
...blossoming worldwide, making televised matches?along with advertising slots and sponsorship deals?more valuable. Membership of the ICC, the sport's international governing body, has expanded from 47 countries in 1997 to 96 last year. The ICC also moved its headquarters from London to Dubai and aims to grow top-level Test cricket from 10 sides today to a 20-strong second tier of cricket-playing countries that include China, the Netherlands and Canada...
...staging ground for Ford's innovation revolution is the top-secret Piquette Project. Unknown by all but the very top-level Ford executives, the program is aimed at nothing short of reinventing Detroit. It's named after the third-floor Piquette plant skunk works where Henry Ford and a group of engineers first developed the idea of the assembly line and experimented with lighter materials to create a car that could be mass-produced. The specific goals and the deadlines of the Piquette project are secret. But company officials say it harks back to Henry Ford's innovative experiments with...
...recent controversy surrounding top-level Bush administration officials, the apparent unwillingness of Democrats to fight the President’s Supreme Court nominations, and the political posturing surrounding the two-and-a-half-year-old Iraq question are the latest in a string of events that have left many in the country, and at Harvard, disenchanted with traditional party politics. But it’s not just periodic crises and scandals that have left many disappointed with the two major political parties: the parties’ ideologies leave no room for people to form separate opinions on each policy issue.Harvard...
While critics decry the CIA for using secret prisons overseas to interrogate and allegedly torture suspected terrorists, America's spooks are also contending with another issue--how such sensitive information became public in the first place. CIA Director Porter Goss, U.S. officials tell TIME, has ordered a top-level review of agency tradecraft procedures, including measures his National Clandestine Service takes to keep the movement of terrorist suspects it nabs out of the public eye. Amnesty International announced last week that it had identified, from flight records, six planes used by the CIA that had made some 800 trips through...