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HARVARD is one of the few major educational institutions that does not appoint a board of trustees. Instead, alumni annually elect five Overseers, each of whom serves a six-year term on the 30-person board. Recent alumni voting patterns show a sensitivity to the social, educational and political challenges Harvard has had to meet since the late '60s. Educators, scientists and government officials now serve on the board alongside financiers and industrialists; women and blacks share in decisions that were once exclusively the prerogatives of white...
...discharged with uneven success. As a result, he has sometimes failed to keep Moore sufficiently informed to be effective. For instance, the U.S.-Soviet statement on the Middle East caught Moore as much by surprise as it did his Hill contacts. Another factor is Carter's unwillingness to appoint a single top aide with clear-cut responsibility for coordinating the often disparate elements of the White House bureaucracy...
Marquand said he has received only "general requests that the entire security system be looked into." He added that College officials may appoint a task force to study the problem of security at the Collge...
Sullivan's most important function, in the eyes of those who appoint him, is to provide tight financial management. But instead of high profits, it is low taxes people want from him. And instead of stockholders or voters, it is the city councilors to whom Sullivan must ultimately answer...
...Norton resigned his position, saying that the committee presented its viewpoint, but as the school has a distinctly different approach, continued meetings are purposeless. Norton feels there is no clear way of identifying which side is "right" and which is "wrong." The best tactic now, he says, is to appoint a wholly new committee, "get a new broom and let it sweep for a while." Visitors reported Hidetada Sasaki and Frederick Rose also resigned in protest of the Overseers' action but despite repeated attempts to contact them, they were unavailable to confirm those reports. Jonathan Barnett, another member...