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...search for the next chief of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). University President Lawrence H. Summers and the Faculty’s governing council agreed in February that a committee of professors would compile a list of deanship candidates, and that the committee would then vet finalists for the job. The Undergraduate Council last night appointed seven students to an advisory panel that will issue a report on the qualities of an ideal dean. Graduate Student Council President Benjamin G. Lee, whose organization comprises master’s and doctoral candidates within FAS, said that he and other...
...Laden. I suggest to everyone to read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's speech "Beyond Vietnam" which he delivered at the Riverside Baptist Church in New York, and see for themselves the eerie simularities between the Vietnam war and this Iraqi mess. My brother is a decorated Vietnam vet. I remember the way that war changed him. He wasn't the same man. He only talked to me once about his time over there. About the time they went to rescue some POWs. I can see his face now, the way he kept saying, "That...
...States.Back in New York, Delany attended a general studies program at Columbia University for one year before transferring to Harvard. “I knew I had to go to school,” Delany says. But transitioning into a college lifestyle wasn’t easy for the vet. Being a few years older than the average sophomore, Delany is concerned about finding his place on campus. “I don’t want to be that creepy old guy hanging out in the freshman dorm,” he says. A NOBLE CAREERAs Delany prepares himself...
...ports that ends up in the U.S. Transport Canada officials insist security at Canadian ports is as good as, if not better than, at American ports. Even so, Americans may get even more zealous about inspecting cargo arriving from Canada--underlining a growing divergence of views about how to vet port security...
...DUKE) CUNNINGHAM, 64, California Republican who resigned from Congress and pleaded guilty last fall to taking $2.4 million in bribes; to eight years and four months in prison, the longest term ever given a Congressman; by a federal judge in San Diego. At his sentencing, Cunningham, a decorated Vietnam vet, tearfully said, "After years of service to my country, I made a wrong turn...