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...Harvard (graduated from Berkeley in 1935) and appears lacking in much of the polish traditionally associated with the Harvard administration. Coming into the deanship in the middle of restructuring debates and Faculty power struggles, his blunt manner has been his greatest virtue. In departmental meetings, he's been blunt and open enough to gain the trust of widely divergent Faculty groups...
Having achieved such innovations, Manning concludes that he has run "the full cycle" of the law school deanship. "I have now become a fund raiser," he says, "a huckster on the road." For a top scholar on corporate law and an administrator with few peers, a new challenge may be hard to find. But no one who knows him doubts that Manning will succeed...
Skeptical faculty members who two years ago thought Bok was too young for the deanship now praise his performance. He has succeeded in changing one of the most staid laws schoolsin the country with grade reforms and more relevant courses, and still kept adamant opponents of both from leaving...
...political Candidates usually ascribe their victories to the wisdom of the voters. But not the Rev. Robert Drinan, the Jesuit who last week upset Congressman Philip Philbin, a 14-term House veteran, in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. "It was a miracle," said Drinan, who is on leave from his deanship at Boston College Law School. It was, however, something a lot more mundane that made Drinan almost a sure bet to become the first Catholic cleric in 145 years to go to Congress...
THESE FIRST-YEAR MBAs really never got to know George P. Baker, who retired from the deanship last January. Many of them have spoken to the new dean, Lawrence E. Fouraker, but feel they have not been able to talk to him in any meaningful way. In the years just before he became dean, Fouraker taught only in special advanced programs. As a result virtually no MBA student recognized Fouraker's name when he was awarded the deanship. Fouraker, who has generally refused to discuss with the press any difficulties he is having at the school, was surprisingly frank about...