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...tenure process is also unnecessarily secretive, particularly after cases leave the department. The amount of influence the ad hoc committee can be expected to wield is still unclear. While in some cases, it can sink a department's recommendation, the committee can also be avoided altogether, and occasionally professors are tenured without any ad hoc committee...
...those strong pitchers will have to shut down a UMass lineup that can wield the stick pretty well itself. Seven of the Minufemen's projected starters also hit above the 300 mark...
Indeed, many big-city mayors have bemoaned that while they can fight crime and fill potholes around a school, they wield little influence over what happens inside. That responsibility has rested in the hands of superintendents, school boards and unions, whose often fractious interests result in personal fiefdoms and byzantine politics that keep bickering high and student achievement low. But Archer's ascension is the latest in a wave of public school takeovers, from Chicago and Cleveland, Ohio, to Buffalo, N.Y., and New Orleans. Mayors in these and other cities have all gained--or are in the process of gaining...
Still, Harvard should take a lead role in pressing for the change. As we saw last May during debate over the Riggs amendment, which would have stripped funds from colleges and universities with affirmative action programs. Harvard can wield considerable influence in Washington. Pushing for an end to a law that penalizes law schools for following their consciences would be another good use of that prestige...
...legislative matters, this is not so troubling because the vast power that small states wield in the Senate is checked by the House of Representatives and the President's veto. But in an impeachment trial, the verdict of the senators is final, so a public, on-the-record vote would not subject the senators to national public opinion so much as it would implement the will of public opinion in the smaller states, unchecked by a more representative body...