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Summers’ top-down management style—regularly making requests of departments without using Harvard’s reporting structure, and keeping Faculty as distant from Allston planning as possible—suggests that he views Harvard less like an institution of higher learning and more like a Fortune 500 company (or perhaps a cabinet-level department). Summers might boast that his methods cut through red tape; indeed, he compared Harvard to a Ford factory in explaining to classmates at my freshman barbecue why the matter of a living wage was for administrators alone to debate. But academic...
Ongoing through June. “Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery of the American Southwest.” The Peabody Museum. Open daily 9 A.M.-5 P.M. $7.50; $6 students and seniors; free with Harvard ID. Free Sun. 9 A.M.-noon...
...ranked “socialization” and “discrimination” a distant third in the list of causes for the lack of females in the sciences—after the much-maligned “natural abilities” hypothesis...
It’s the little things that might yet sink the career of one of the smartest men I have ever met. At Tuesday’s Faculty meeting, professors presented a laundry list of petty slights, minor insults, and distant misdeeds that now add up to a perfect storm for Harvard’s president. The Faculty has stored up a cornucopia of complaints, each too small to warrant widespread anger on its own. But when great minds get together, they connect dots...
...before still out of reach? / vote, assassinate, impeach”) and the more tortured monologues of those alienated by mass culture and society (“…in the way one wakes at noon not wanting to rise from the bed; / in the way you suspend a distant dream before you; / in a language that has left you in fear of reluctance – this is what they’ve won by?...