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...best curriculum. Discussions were put on hold for months at a time during the winters of 2005 and 2006, while the Faculty lambasted Summers and his leadership style. When the review—and in particular its centerpiece, the General Education requirement—was on the agenda, discussion was characterized both in committee and among the full Faculty by a striking inability to work together and agree on any meaningful proposals...
...inspiring vision for the future only to be ousted by a Faculty averse to change and offended by his brusque management style. For the past year, interim President Derek C. Bok has smoothed over choppy waters, building a foundation on which it will be possible to reengage an ambitious agenda. Faust would be wise to do so and not shy away from badly-needed reform for fear of offending her many constituencies.Perhaps Faust’s biggest challenge will be bringing the University together into a unified whole. Harvard has long operated under a decentralized system, with each faculty...
...that too many debates on campus have become reminiscent of the worst of the television news programs like The O’Reilly Factor, where the host cuts off the mike of guests whose opinion he dislikes. The protesters here like to think they are advancing their views and agenda. Instead, with their lack of respect for rational discourse, they are no better than the thuggish O’Reilly...
...Princeton, is on a lecture tour in Ireland and was unavailable to comment for this story. Cline says she feels that she and Darnton share “a commitment to bringing in additional monies, whether it’s through grants or gifts, so we can accelerate our agenda on certain fronts...
Despite those criticisms and Russia's objections, however, Bush is in a good position to advance his missile defense agenda. At home, there is no real opposition to missile defense - mainstream Democrats since Bill Clinton's presidency have shied away from dissenting over missile defense. And abroad there is some willingness to go along with the U.S. in the face of public resistance. Czech President Vaclav Klaus today said he supported Bush's program, despite 60% disapproval among Czechs. All of which means that even threats to target European countries are unlikely to shake the U.S.'s will to deploy...