Word: vacuums
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...class, I didn't think I knew how to study it. It just seemed like a lot of memorizing and equations and all that. But it's really cool. You get to blow stuff up. Last class, we took a Styrofoam cup and put it next to a vacuum cleaner, and it sucked all the air out of it, and it became like a midget Styrofoam cup. We also get to work with dangerous chemicals, so that class is pretty...
...consider in the dean search. First, the next dean of the Faculty should have only an interim appointment and second, Harvard undergraduates must be involved in the searches for both the interim and permanent FAS deans.The notion of a permanent dean is certainly tempting, given the vacuum of leadership left behind by the resignations of Kirby and University President Lawrence H. Summers. But there are numerous disadvantages of a permanent dean that outweigh our desire for such an appointment. The presence of a new permanent dean in September, for example, would likely limit the pool of candidates for University president...
...That outcome looks increasingly likely because of the dangerous incompetence of this administration. We went to war without letting the weapons inspectors finish their job, without the support of our major allies, without enough troops to prevent a security vacuum, and without a plan to win the peace...
...prospect of civil war. But a day spent with the ambassador as he shuttles across Baghdad reveals just how hard it will be for him to forge compromise. At his meeting with al-Hakim, the SCIRI leader's aides nod when Khalilzad says the political deadlock is creating a vacuum that encourages sectarian impulses. But al-Hakim wants to talk instead about the discovery last week of a bus containing the corpses of 18 men, many of them clearly garroted. News reports said the men were Sunnis; al-Hakim says they were Shi'ites. Khalilzad is caught off guard...
...Derek C. Bok and Neil L. Rudenstein.“It’s important to have these overseers partake in the search because the final consent must come from the Board,” he says.However, the search committee doesn’t make its decision in a vacuum. According to a Garrett T. Graff ’03, a former Crimson editor who covered the search that produced Summers, each member of the search committee meets with hundreds of people, including prominent alumni, faculty, and leaders in non-academic fields. Each interview lasts two or three hours...