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"[On the eve of what would have been the presidential inauguration holiday for Bill Clinton's NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, Boston U. remains without a president and Goldin has received a $1.8 million dollar severance package without working a single day.] [In protest] a group of professors has launched a website called "BUWatch" to pressure the administration for reform. [B.U. graduate Peter] Bernard founded an alternative alumni association. And one informal group of alumni is even mulling a class-action suit against the trustees for devaluing their degrees. "If this is not the time to stand up, when is?" asked Neidle, a...

<p>Boston University's Board of Trustees selected Daniel S. Goldin as president in July after a rushed search and only one brief meeting with him, then found themselves stunned by a series of demands from Goldin, including his plans to fire almost all of BU's top administrators and to live part time at his home in Malibu, Calif., several BU officials and sources close to the trustees said yesterday.</p>

Boston University trustees unanimously booted Daniel S. Goldin from the school's presidency yesterday, paying him $1.8 million to leave before he worked a day. ``On reflection, I think the board felt that Mr. Goldin might not be a good fit,'' board vice chairman Dexter Dodge told reporters. Preferring the embarrasment of reversing themselves to working with the former NASA chief, trustees instead appointed BU Medical School Dean Aram Chobanian as interim president and restarted the search for a permanent leader. Capping a week of monumental upheaval at the fourth-largest university in the country, the 33-year era of John Silber ended...

<p>Boston University will pay $1.8 million to their president-designate as severance pay from a post he never filled, the New York Times reported.</p> <p>The school's trustees had chosen former NASA chief Daniel S. Goldin, 63, as the university's next president.</p>

Daniel S. Goldin, the former head of NASA who was just a day from becoming president of Boston University, resigned Friday amid reports of souring relations with the school's trustees and its outgoing chancellor, John R. Silber. The announcement ended a tumultuous week that began Oct. 24, when an executive committee of the board of trustees agreed to reconsider the offer to Goldin. (snip) University officials said they reached a financial settlement with Goldin that terminated his contract, reportedly worth $750,000 per year, plus other perquisites. The settlement was widely reported as $1.8 million. (snip) The Globe reported Friday that...

Just one day before he was to take over as the trustees' unanimous choice to lead Boston University, Daniel S. Goldin, the former NASA administrator, agreed to walk away from the presidency of the nation's fourth-largest private university for a reported payment of $1.8 million. The university, whose officials only weeks ago hailed Mr. Goldin as a visionary leader, and Mr. Goldin, who had invited the entire faculty to his inauguration on Nov. 17, "terminated their contract and have mutually decided to part company," according to a statement released by Mr. Goldin and the university. University officials would not say...

The Boston University Board of Trustees has brought down the curtain - at least for now - on the multi-act melodrama playing out on Commonwealth Avenue. Former NASA chief Daniel S. Goldin saved the trustees the trouble of firing him before he even took office and no doubt walked away with a settlement handsome enough to salve any bruises he might have suffered to his ego. A pile of cash, no hassles from the board, no John Silber to breathe down his neck and no damage to his reputation since it was the board that persisted in acting like the...

<p>A committee of influential Boston University trustees voted yesterday to recommend that the university's governing board reconsider its decision to name former NASA chief Daniel S. Goldin as president of the 30,000-student campus, according to sources familiar with the trustees' concerns.</p>

 The "Oslo Era" is of course an epic of astronomical stupidity and heart-breaking tragedy.  But it does have its bitterly ironic moments.  These include when Arab terrorists end up killing or injuring the leftists who imported them into Israeli lands.     There have been quite a few such cases.   A leading Meretz activist was among those murdered in the Haifa Matsa restaurant suicide bomb attack. The son of a leftist journalist for Yediot Ahronot was among those murdered on one of the Jerusalem bus bombings, as was the niece of one of the worst anti-Jewish Far-Left fanatics on the faculty...