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Corporation fellow Nannerl O. Keohane has said that all things being equal, she would prefer to see a female in the post, according to a senior faculty member and another individual familiar with the search committee’s activities. Robert E. Rubin ’60, Corporation fellow and former Treasury secretary, has also expressed interest in appointing an external candidate with an assertive leadership style, the two sources said. In 2001, Rubin, who was not yet a member of the Corporation, played a key role in convincing the search committee to select Lawrence H. Summers. Rubin...
...never really finished until the director, the producers and, often, other writers have had their say. But the Oscar-nominated British writers all have long histories with the people they work with, stemming from careers that started in television and the theater. "In British film, there's a very equal and strong relationship between producers, directors and screenwriters," says Richard Curtis, writer of quintessentially British comedies like Notting Hill and Love Actually. "So nobody would ever say to Marber, 'We don't much like what you've done here, let's bring in Tom Stoppard to write a couple...
Teaching may be given “major and equal weight” with research in professors’ annual salary calculations if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences follows the recommendations of a new report on teaching released to professors last week.In a document that gives voice to frustrated professors who believe that Harvard marginalizes or ignores good instruction, the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development proposed a swath of concrete measures to change Harvard’s teaching culture. The recommendations include more documentation of teaching ability during hiring and promotions, more funding from the FAS administration...
...Harvard student body in post-exam hibernation, the crowd on Friday night was as dull and lifeless as ever, drawing out any remaining life-blood from a supposed rivalry game that pitted a 5-10 Yale squad against an 8-8 Harvard team. Yale fans in attendance seemed to equal, if not exceed, Crimson supporters, and with no Harvard cheerleaders in sight, Yale’s cheerleading squad took the floor at every opportunity. After the game, an 88-78 Bulldogs victory, Yale guard Casey Hughes—who shut down Harvard captain Jim Goffredo in an impressive display...
...leaders have long spoken out against a schism between Shi'ites and Sunnis, arguing that it only benefits Israel and the enemies of Islam. And one reason it called off its general strike earlier this week was that Hizballah has probably concluded that the government, buoyed by roughly equal support to that of the opposition and backed by the weight of the international community, will not buckle regardless of any new measures undertaken by the opposition. That was implicitly acknowledged to TIME by Qassem Hashem, an opposition parliamentarian and member of the Lebanese branch of the Ba'ath Party...