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...federal court in Washington, D.C., at almost every step of the way he ran into interference from senior company executives. They allegedly told him he just had to put a "good face" on the project, acknowledging that the company had put in an unrealistically low bid in order to win the coveted $187 million contract. Sauer said he was told he would just have to "make do" so that ArmorGroup International, based in London, could still manage to squeeze a profit from the operation. (See pictures of battles in Afghanistan...
...African and African American Studies Werner Sollors.In the past few decades, faculty bodies coordinating ethnic studies have shifted from ad hoc to standing committees. In multiple instances, students have organized to demand more academic options. The last big student push was in 2002, when a coalition failed to win approval for a certificate in ethnic studies. The committee’s current revival has come in response to interest from the Undergraduate Council and the Ethnic Studies Coalition, an unofficial student group that formed last spring to advocate for the subject’s revitalization. Various faculty members, over...
Just one week into the season, the Harvard men’s soccer team seems to be walking on sunshine. The Crimson men are riding high on a two-game winning streak, defeating each of their opponents by at least a two-goal margin. Add to this a new class of rookie standouts, a record-setting point performance by co-captain Andre Akpan, and an impressive .207 successful shot percentage relative to its opponents’ .032 mark, and Harvard (2-0-0) seems to have found the recipe to success. However, as biting autumn winds drift through the leaves...
Timoner—the only person to win two Grand Jury awards at Sundance in one category (documentary)—was initially unsure about the venture when Harris contacted her. “I didn’t know what the heck he was talking about when he called me to ‘document cultural history,’” Timoner recalls. “He wouldn’t tell...
...hours before the speech, "When you ask people, 'Do you support the President's health-care plan?' you get something from [even] to slightly negative. When you describe what the President is proposing, you get solid support by a margin of 20 points or more." (Read "Can Pelosi Win Over Wary Dems on Health Care...