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...Corning Incorporated’s Board of Directors. Houghton, who is also the chairman of the search committee charged with choosing Harvard’s 28th president, has worked at the research and technology company for almost four decades. He joined the Harvard Corporation seven months before retiring as chair and CEO of Corning in 1996. However, financial difficulties at the company prompted his return as non-excecutive chairman of the board in 2001 and CEO and chairman of the board in 2002. Corning spokesman Daniel F. Collins said the decision was “just a natural progression...
...departments.Across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, department heads were cautious in forecasting the impact of secondary fields. “No one was able to predict, or pretend to predict, what secondary fields would mean for large departments,” said Nancy L. Rosenblum, the chair of the Government Department, home to the second-largest concentration after economics. Part of the impetus for implementing secondary fields was to attract more students to smaller departments as secondary concentrators, according to Rosenblum. Some professors, including Rosenblum, argued that it remains to be seen whether such a shift will actually occur.Deborah...
...their publications caused an uproar among readers alleging racism, discrimination, and insensitivity.Today, “there is so much more scrutiny and exposure that what could be a small campus issue becomes a national one,” said Jonathan J. Lehman ’08, the Crimson sports chair whose piece on sports teams’ mascots was widely criticized by the Native Americans at Harvard (NAHC).The New York Times covered the Princeton controversy and The Boston Globe reported on the Tufts’ imbroglio, and numerous blogs covered all three controversies.The Princeton article, which was written...
...into this situation so deeply is that I feel that the American citizens have given so generously with their sons and daughters," he says. "Have we not fulfilled our commitment to the Iraqi people?" Warner's spacious office is filled with props: an arm from Saddam Hussein's chair, World War I medals awarded to Warner's father, a copy of the resolution Warner wrote authorizing the first Gulf War. History is never far from Warner's mind. "The decisions I'm making on this particular issue are among the most important I've made in 29 years in this...
ARIA S. K. LASKIN ’08 of Vancouver, British Columbia and Cabot House Magazine Chair...