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...that is presented for higher review by an ad hoc committee. “I think generally, larger departments make better appointments, because there’s a much greater variety of opinions about a given candidate,” says Sanskrit and Indian Studies Chair Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp. —Emily J. Nelson contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...contributions, say Alesina and Martin. But Summers also has to make decisions about cases in other fields.“To what degree can a president make a decision about people in areas about which he really knows nothing?” asks Sanskrit and Indian Studies ChairLeonard W.J. van der Kuijp. “A humbling moment should take place, so then I believe the president will have closely to read what the ad hoc committee has to say and also look very closely at the files of the person who’s being brought up for tenure...
Noah may have built an arc, but one Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrator is going about flood preparation in a different way—she has designed a line of water-friendly garb. Jane H. Van Cleef ’06 opened a store in Inman Square earlier this month to sell 14 different styles of clothes and accessories for her VES senior thesis. The clothing store, which she has dubbed the Climate Change Preparedness Center, sells items designed for “a swampy more aquatic-oriented future,” according to Van Cleef. The store?...
...Daewoo. "People used to say the south was the best place to do business," says Nguyen Anh Tuan, deputy director of Vietnam's Foreign Investment Agency. "But now, that point of view is no longer correct." Tuan may be biased-his office is in Hanoi-but even Luong Van Ly, deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City's planning and investment department, is forced to grudgingly admit: "Hanoi is catching up very quickly...
...Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently reduced tariffs on electronic goods, previously as high as 30%, to zero. That gave Vietnam's electronics manufacturers greater access to a trading bloc of half a billion people. "We can be the gateway for export to China," boasts Hoang Van Dung, vice president of Vietnam's Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hanoi, "And we can export to ASEAN and the West at the same time...