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...scene at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Boston on the night of February 10 ended up more like something out of the Keystone Cops than the tea party the search committee had probably hoped for. Crimson reporters caught wind of the committee's plans to interview former Princeton provost--and now Harvard president-designate--Neil L. Rudenstine at the swanky establishment and had the place staked out well in advance...
...FIRST TIME that Harvard's student press encountered Neil Rudenstine, he was slipping out a side entrance of Boston's Ritz Carlton Hotel. His head buried in his jacket to shield his face from the cameras, Rudenstine dove into a waiting limousine, reportedly slouching behind the tinted windows to avoid the gaze of a small band of reporters...
LAST WEEK, the search committee flexed its muscles by having Crimson reporters unceremoniously ejected from looby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Why? Because the committee was interviewing Neil L. Rudenstine, former provost of Princeton University and a highly respected foundation executive. The reporters had not even attempted to interview anyone. They were just waiting in the lobby...
When Rudenstine emerged from the Ritz-Carlton, the Kremlinesque committee had him shield his face and dive into a limousine like a mobster about to be arraigned...
Consider the case of Eileen Carlton, 65, of Danvers, Mass., who had a stroke five years ago and lost almost all ability to speak. Today, working with a visual-communications computer program designed by linguists at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Carlton uses symbols to construct sentences, so that she can communicate with her family and friends. "This has opened a whole new world to her," says her son Bill, 39. "Writing is too complicated for her, but she knows what she wants to say. So instead of spending the rest of her life playing charades, she uses symbols...