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While a degree of secrecy is necessary for certain upper-level appointments, allowing more community members a meaningful say would greatly enhance discussion on the issues when selecting a new House master, dean, University librarian, or University president. Searches should be made either formally through a more public process, or participants in a community looking for a new leader should be more informally involved. This could entail students interviewing candidates for the dean of the College position or actually creating a formal committee to make a recommendation...
...recent months, a wave of political agitation has swept much of Asia, crashing through Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma and even normally placid Japan, where popular anger buried the Liberal Democratic Party in upper house elections. In all these countries, the public has demanded more keys to power - free votes, and transparent and responsive politicians. Instead, they are getting keys to time machines. Despite these calls for change, Asia's political classes are responding by regurgitating the same tired faces...
...goaltending. Hahn, although only credited with four saves, had a much bigger day than the statistics would indicate. His greatest effort came in the waning minutes with Harvard trying to find the equalizer. Dartmouth lined up a free kick outside the 18-yard box that looked destined for the upper corner the moment it was struck. Just inches before the ball crossed the goal plane, Hahn leaped across the net and punched the shot over the crossbar to keep the game within one. “Another great game,” Hoff said of Hahn’s performance...
...weather or not, momentum shifted very quickly over the course of the game. “I think we could bring more intensity to games like this,” Mann said. Slick and damp from a morning downpour, the field prevented either team from gaining the upper hand. It was difficult to play quickly on the ground as passes and touches went astray. As a result, both teams ended up resorting to the long ball. “It’s tiring to play under these conditions two weeks in a row,” Leone said...
...tension between the BBC's aim of making what Byford calls "brilliant, outstanding, special, stand-out content that raises the bar of broadcasting" and the Corporation's need to justify its existence by attracting mass audiences, which tend to eschew high culture and serious factual programming. Populism has the upper hand. "If you look at the history of the BBC, it is the history of a very slow retreat from the public-service remit, as if gradually the grass is growing over Lord Reith's grave," says Greenslade...