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Barry’s Corner, the neighborhood at the intersection of Western Ave. and N. Harvard St., harbors no such pretensions of grandeur. Anchored at one end by a low-income housing complex and on the other by two gas stations, it is a gritty and crumbling ribbon of asphalt where two major bus routes meet to form a bowtie-shaped intersection hazardous to pedestrians. But in its modesty there is a sense of community that Harvard Square lost long ago. Inexpensive housing rings the crossroads; in the mornings, residents, many of them optimistic immigrants hoping to grab a piece...
...leader will have, it’s a little hard to talk about progress. You really need a leadership that takes ownership of the issue,” says Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies Michele Lamont.“Social engineering is a complex thing and it doesn’t happen overnight,” she says. “You cannot expect this committee to produce deliverables.”THE PRICE IS RIGHT?Last spring, professors and administrators said Summers’ decision to give $50 million over 10 years symbolized...
Wanted: “A person of high intellectual distinction, with...a capacity to guide a complex institution through a time of significant change” to be the next president of Harvard University. Six months after the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, solicited names fitting this profile in 2000, University President Lawrence H. Summers was hired. The Corporation had high expectations that the Washington-trained economist would use the visibility of the Harvard presidency to take the University in daring directions. Five years later, Summers is leaving Mass. Hall, having lost the Corporation?...
...2003.But Summers lacked experience running an academic institution, and some observers have urged the committee to now select a candidate with more proven credentials in university administration.“The most important thing right now is to find somebody who understands the problems of leadership in a complex university,” says Jay W. Lorsch, the Kirstein professor of human relations at Harvard Business School. “That means you can’t get somebody who thinks they can dictate solutions to every problem.”There exist a number of potential candidates who have...
...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 a lack of space?...