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...hard to tell who suffers more, the wandering parents or their children. Delivering follows two thoroughly upset brothers on their newspaper route the morning after their mother and father noisily called it quits. In the title novella, Finding a Girl in America, Dubus picks up the saga of Hank Allison that he began in two earlier volumes of stories. Experiments in consensual philandering ultimately broke up the Allison marriage. Now Hank, 35, lives alone, teaches at a small Massachusetts college and has sequential affairs with matriculating young women: "What had been spice in his married twenties was now his sustenance...
...Allison promises to emerge from the administrative confusion of the transfer with not only a practical means of integrating CRP into the K-School's two graduate degree programs but also with a reevaluation and possible adjustment of his institution's efforts to teach public policy. "For ten years we have been dealing specifically with public policy. It's a perfect time to step back and see just what we have accomplished and how we might go about it better," he explains. Faculty committees have for several months been examining this problem and will submit their findings to Allison...
With all of this activity, Allison's main fear is that the school will tear itself apart by racing in too many directions at once. "We must maintain a center of gravity, our core concerns in teaching, research and executive programs," he says, adding that "There are so many problems in government and management and so many people out there who want us to address them that we end up having to turn them down very often." Allison recalls a governor who was so impressed with the K-School's executive training programs that he wanted to charter a special...
...academic and training resources and frequently in the headlines as a forum for political events, it is one of Harvard's flashiest showpieces. Many observers wonder where the school derives its near-frantic desire for expansion and improvement. Who sets the pace of the Kennedy School? What keeps Allison and Co. hustling...
...November, President Bok launched the idea with a trial balloon and three months later he informed Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School and Gerald M. McCue, dean-designate of the GSD, that the transfer had become a reality...