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Fifteen Minutes: What do you think of Hank Paulson’s nomination to be Treasury secretary? University President Lawrence H. Summers: He’s an alum of our business school. He’s a first rate guy with very broad experience who may well need it, given the large challenges our economy and financial system face...
...Harvard alumni who sit on the Board of Overseers leave most of the school’s key decisions to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s seven-member executive body. Instead, the Overseers are relegated to approving those decisions and issuing broad recommendations on Harvard’s educational policies...
During his five-year tenure, University President Lawrence H. Summers painted Allston’s future in broad brush strokes: a vision of green pastures and bustling city streets surrounding a hub devoted to interdisciplinary science research.Within the next 10 years—long after Summers is gone—a glass science complex will stand in what is now a parking lot and a new museum for contemporary and modern art will move into the offices of Bank of America.The School of Public Health and the School of Education—both of which have complained for years about...
...that Hilary Clinton is frosty and that Osama bin Laden crashed planes into the World Trade Center not because I had any direct experience with the former first lady or September 11, but because it appears that way on TV.In other words, because the world is too complex and broad for personal experience, we make use of unstable and inaccurate proxies. Seemingly solid facts, thoughtless orthodoxies considered True, are largely—although not entirely—a matter of perspective. Which makes Jon Stewart’s denunciation of Crossfire wishful thinking. He wants networks to relay the Truth...
...recruit to the Faculty so many of the world’s most notable scholars, who come here in unmatched numbers. Harvard’s prestige beyond Cambridge seems to grow, even in years when we contest, vocally and publicly, with each other about our own workings. Yet the broad attitude of students and faculty often seems one of edgy anxiety...