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Talk about spooky. At an intelligence trade fair known as INTELCON, to be held near Washington next week, spyware firms will sell G-men everything from satellite-image analysis to cryptography tools. But the most secretive item may be a trade-fair award, named after Reagan-era CIA Director William Casey, that will be given at an unannounced ceremony at an unspecified time and place. The undisclosed winner, a high-profile business exec, will be cited for "selfless dedication"--code for his unheralded aid to U.S. intelligence...
...typical Alloy book is farmed out to a contract writer, but Viswanathan (who declined to comment for this article) came to them. A college-admissions counselor liked her writing at 17 and put her in touch with the William Morris Agency. Her agent suggested she work with Alloy to develop a reader-friendly concept. Coincidentally, she and Alloy hit on a tale about an Indian-American teen who applies to Harvard, is told she has to prove she has a social life, hatches a plan to get one but realizes she has made a mistake by trying to be someone...
...admissions tracks into Harvard—one for athletes and one for everyone else—institutionalize the disconnect between athletes and non-athletes that former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 laments. Lewis holds students and people like former Princeton president William G. Bowden responsible for not regarding athletes as “regular students,” and charges that this attitude of “public contempt” is the last acceptable prejudice at Harvard. I share his concern. But it is primarily the policies of the College itself...
...They look at nominally the same thing, but the outside letters have less insight into teaching, advising, and internal service,” says Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department Chair Cynthia Friend, who chaired a 2003 committee that reviewed faculty appointment processes.INSIDE THE BOARDROOMEach Wednesday, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby sits down with the academic deans to review dossiers.The meeting is a “filter” for tenure cases, says Dean for the Physical Sciences and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti. The group either forwards...
...Council also discussed the search for a replacement for FAS Dean William C. Kirby for the first time since March 8. Kirby will step down on June...