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...newsroom staff at the Kansas City Star and Times was in an uproar last week over a memo from Publisher James Hale. Responding to a suggestion from Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC, the New York City-based owners of the papers, Hale told employees that drug-sniffing dogs might be used at the Missouri papers as part of a company-wide program to fight narcotics abuse...
...Houghton ’58, senior fellow of the Corporation, as news of Summers’ remarks first emerged, recalled an employee in Houghton’s office who refused to give his name. Harvard insiders were surely curious to gauge Houghton’s reaction to the faculty uproar, which was then only beginning to gain momentum. Would he lead the Corporation in defense of the besieged president...
Amidst the ensuing uproar, many of Summers’ most vocal defenders—on and off campus—came from the right wing of the political spectrum. That marked a startling turnaround from a decade ago, when Summers, then a top official at the Clinton Treasury Department, was a favorite punching bag for conservative pundits...
...Eirinaios wrote an anti-Semitic letter to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Eirinaios says the letter was a forgery. In March, an Israeli court ruled that Eirinaios was elected with covert aid from a shady Greek intelligence informant arrested in April on charges of drug trafficking. The current uproar began in March when an Israeli newspaper claimed the Patriarchate had leased properties in Omar Ibn al-Khattab Square, just inside the Old City's Jaffa Gate, to Jewish investors. That inflames Palestinians because they believe the Old City should one day become part of a Palestinian state. Israeli security...
Professor of Anthropology Arthur Kleinman, Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, and Professor of Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, all of whom spoke about the Faculty’s place in University governance during the uproar over Summers’ Jan. 14 remarks, were re-elected to serve three-year terms...