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This wasn't the only time Redstone took the lead in orchestrating a shift toward bigger risks on the content side of Viacom's media empire. At a meeting this year with executives at Viacom's Paramount Pictures, with Karmazin present, Redstone stunned his team with a commitment to bankroll more of the big-budget films that studio heads love but that Karmazin loved to avoid. The divide over how far to wade into expensive movies and risky programming was not gaping. Karmazin says he was eager, for example, to launch the gay network. But things weren't moving fast...
Hrdy, who said she has received several e-mails with “constructive criticism” since the magazine’s release, said the co-founders are open to informed feedback about the magazine’s content...
...that it will not be debated in the open-spirited manner it deserves,” says former Dean of Undergraduate Education William M. Todd III, who says he nonetheless agrees with most of the report’s recommendations. “That is not a problem of content, but more in terms of the direction in which the community is headed...Part of it is people’s fear of where Harvard is going under President Summers...
...while top University administrators had long been content to forgo the best researchers in these fields, a sea change has taken place in Harvard’s approach to engineering sciences...
Harvard’s lagging ability to attract top students and faculty in these areas is a product of what McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering Joseph J. Harrington said is a history of indifference to DEAS. Adminsitrators were perfectly content to let DEAS subsist as a small outpost in the FAS science compound along Oxford Street...