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...professors acknowledge that Dreben's unusual task of drawing up these committees and serving on them ex officio gives him unusual influence in batting down a department's nomination...
Elusiveness suits Dreben fine. "He is not a person who seeks the limelight. If he had a choice, he would rather be, as the Japanese say, behind the screen," says Dreben's administrative boss and close friend. Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky...
...Dreben's behind-the-screen activities have led to his reputation as one of the most powerful members of the Faculty, a reputation even he is hard pressed to dismiss. "I am constantly aware that someone in my position could seem to have some kind of undue influence," Dreben says. "Over the past 11 years I have played the role of being a serious advisor to the dean one of several," he adds...
Rosovsky simply calls Dreben "a powerful voice in the dean's office...
...chief source of Dreben's power is his role of assembling scholars to sit on Harvard's ad hoc committees. These are groups composed of both inside and outside professors, which review every departmental tenure nomination and make a recommendation to President...