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<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>

<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...

<p>Incoming Boston University president Daniel S. Goldin told the school's board of trustees 10 days ago that he feared he lacked the support he needs to run the university, according to a trustee who attended the meeting where Goldin spoke.</p>

Boston University senior Fran Fincke grins sheepishly and confesses he is known, in campus parlance, as ``BU cute.'' Translation? ``You wouldn't normally be (considered) cute,'' Fincke says, ``but since it's BU, and there's a lot fewer guys . . .'' A year after BU chancellor John Silber made headlines declaring the school's 60 percent female undergraduate majority a distraction for male students and a harbinger of woes for men in general, the emotionally charged debate over lopsided enrollments at college campuses in Massachusetts and across the country has hardly subsided. ``There's a lack of diversity of opinions,'' said BU sophomore...

Boston University senior Fran Fincke grins sheepishly and confesses he is known, in campus parlance, as ``BU cute.'' Translation? ``You wouldn't normally be (considered) cute,'' Fincke says, ``but since it's BU, and there's a lot fewer guys . . .'' A year after BU chancellor John Silber made headlines declaring the school's 60 percent female undergraduate majority a distraction for male students and a harbinger of woes for men in general, the emotionally charged debate over lopsided enrollments at college campuses in Massachusetts and across the country has hardly subsided. ``There's a lack of diversity of opinions,'' said BU sophomore...

A group of 128 US intellectuals opposed to the notion that the "war on terrorism" is a "just war" has sent a letter to European counterparts calling for "a sane and frank European criticism of the Bush administration's war policy."The letter challenges the framing of the war as a struggle between good and evil, as well as President George W. Bush's explanation for anti-US sentiments.It was conceived as a response to an earlier letter defending the war on terrorism, signed by 60 American intellectuals, which recently received wide publicity in European newspapers."We felt that their notion of 'just war' should...