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...York Times reporter Linda J. Greenhouse ’68, New York City Public Schools Chief Operating Officer Photeine M. Anagnostopoulos ’81, and the Smithsonian’s Director of the Museum of Natural History Cristián Samper won six-year terms in an alumni vote to serve on the 30-member board.Former CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Joshua S. Boger, who received the sixth most votes, will serve the remaining three-year term vacated by Arne S. Duncan ’86, who left to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education...
...Those six beat out four other candidates, two of whom were nominated by petition. Professor Margaret Levi, a professor of international studies at the University of Washington, and Mark D. Gearan ’78, the president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, were nominated by the Harvard Alumni Association, and lawyers Robert L. Freedman ’62 and Harvey A. Silverglate ’67—who informally ran together—were nominated by petition...
...Harvard Alumni Association had approached her a few years ago to ask if she was interested in running. But when she asked for permission from then-executive editor Joseph Lelyveld ’58, he said it would be a conflict of interest for her to take part in confidential discussions while being obligated to report to the Times, which covers Harvard...
...Greenhouse said that one of the first things she did after taking the buyout last year was approach the Harvard Alumni Association and some of her friends on the Board of Overseers to see if they could “get the ball rolling” again...
...elderly, pregnant women, and adults and children with immunosuppression or certain chronic disorders. She said that the recent rash of illness was likely caused by increased person-to-person contact during the graduation period and noted that the patients presenting themselves for treatment have mostly been students and not alumni or other visitors. “Anytime you have any activity going on where people are close, you increase the risk of illness,” Campbell said. “All the seniors are on top of each other with everybody saying goodbye, and there are oodles of social...