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...month after Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers stepped down, Case Western Reserve University president Edward M. Hundert announced his resignation last Thursday in the wake of a 131-44 no-confidence vote by the College of Arts and Sciences. The Case Western faculty criticized Hundert, who faced a $40 million budget deficit and lagging fundraising returns, for instituting budget cuts and sweeping academic reforms without their consultation and for having an allegedly secretive management style. Hundert said in his resignation letter that the continuing tension made it impossible for him to carry out planned university advancements. Even...
...only planes in the sky belonged to U.S. carriers, the NetJets snobs might have a point. Three of the largest American airlines began 2006 in bankruptcy. Meanwhile, other carriers like Virgin Atlantic and Emirates have added such amenities as in-flight massages and Four Seasons?style suites. In their wake, a new generation of boutique airlines is taking flight, serving a minimum of cities with a maximum of style. Upping the ante on exclusivity, they offer business-class-only flights, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine...
...Regents’ vote marked the first move by a public university to divest from Sudan in the wake of genocide allegations against that country’s regime...
...journalist Mark Danner has described systematic torture in American detention facilities as a scandal that “survived its disclosure.” Danner’s elegant phrase points to the total failure of hierarchal accountability in the wake of revelations of abuse, and it suggests our complicity in this failure. We express our revulsion at the Abu Ghraib photos, while averting our eyes from the paper trail leading conclusively upwards from there. This disconnect—whereby we vilify those who carry out repellent policies while bowing deferentially to those who devise them—was vividly...
...company had previously expressed surprise at the pipe's leak, but in the wake of the Department of Transportation fix-it order, BP admitted that an earlier inspection of the pipe had revealed numerous weaknesses that were, for unknown reasons, rapidly worsening. The federal order was also noteworthy because BP had previously tried to argue that the federal government had no jurisdiction to oversee the pipe in question...