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Tourists have long admired Saint-Gilles for its ancient center: narrow streets, tightly packed stone buildings and 12th century monastery ruins. Its more recent political history, however, has given this Languedoc town a kind of ill fame across France. In 1989, Saint-Gilles became the first town to elect a mayor from the extreme-right National Front party. The National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a perennial loser in presidential elections, has consistently placed first in Saint-Gilles. In short, the town has voted for the kind of xenophobic zealotry that for many years was disavowed by polite French...
President-elect Drew G. Faust is narrowing her list of candidates in the search for the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and the top contenders to head the University’s largest school appear to include several prominent Harvard scientists, according to three individuals close to the search process...
...primary concern—and I hope that President-elect Faust thinks the same—is that whatever the gender or intellectual origin of my successor, it should be someone who is going to be a close friend and colleague of President-elect Faust, in helping her shape the future of our Faculty,” he said...
...provide us with a new opportunity and a new perspective," captain-elect Brad Unger said. "He can offer things coming from big programs that are new to a place like Harvard...
...letter was also copied to other University officials, including President-elect Drew G. Faust, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...