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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Observers say that outgoing President Derek C. Bok will probably appoint an acting dean to replace Graham and allow his successor to appoint the permanent replacement...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: Questions In Ed School Future | 2/1/1991 | See Source »

With the Harvard search committee already running several weeks late in its efforts to appoint the new president, the death of Mockler will likely mean more worries and complications...

Author: By Gregory B. Kasowski, | Title: Search to Go Forward | 1/31/1991 | See Source »

Terada says that efforts to appoint senior faculty have thus far been unsuccessful because no scholar is willing to come to Harvard and build a department from scratch. But Terada says she thinks that situation could change if Duke Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. accepts a recent tenure offer from Harvard...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: A Young Scholar Assists A Troubled Department | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

Leading the resistance to the American invasion has been France and its Culture Minister, Jack Lang, a longtime Yankee basher who has proclaimed, "Our destiny is not to become the vassals of an immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock-'n'-roll minister to encourage French rockers, non-French programming is limited to 40% of available air time on the state-run radio stations. But even Alain Finkelkraut, the highbrow French essayist and critic who is no friend of pop culture, concedes, "As painful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Leisure Empire | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...would call upon the President to appoint a commission to develop policy guidelines for science in general and for biomedical research in particular. We haven't had a major policy statement in 50 years. Everything suggests not only that the time is right, but that the time demands such broad thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leon Rosenberg: The Growing Crisis | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

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