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...nervous breakdown and took a leave four years into his tenure, Newsweek put him on the cover with the line “Exhausted.”) Larry Summers has a brilliant mind and bold, forward-looking ideas for Harvard, but, to my mind, suffered from a leadership flaw that was much more serious than not being able to keep his shirts tucked in or his penchant for sounding offensive when he means to be provocative. Whether you like Summers or not (and I do, from my limited encounters with him), he always seemed to be making himself the story...
...that there were a University senate, which would provide an opportunity for issues generally to be discussed before a more representative body,” the Design School’s dean, Alan A. Altshuler, said in an interview on Feb. 15. “It is perhaps a flaw in the Harvard governing system that there’s no mechanism to find out what the University faculty thinks.”Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz also said in a Feb. 15 interview that he thought there should be “a faculty senate...
...University-wide consultative body will give a common voice to the diverse interests of Harvard’s faculties. The call for a University senate at Harvard was voiced last week by Alan A. Altshuler, dean of the Graduate School of Design. “It is perhaps a flaw in the Harvard governing system that there’s no mechanism to find out what the University faculty thinks,” Altshuler told The Crimson. We agree. Many other large and notable American universities employ bodies of this type in order to facilitate inter-school communication and cohesiveness...
...monthly magazine Atlantic commissioned Lévy, who is perhaps the world's most famous living celebrity-intellectual, to retrace the steps of De Tocqueville's 1831-32 ramble through the young republic, a trip that inspired Democracy, let's identify, just for the record, the single most annoying flaw in Lévy's tome: overly long sentences. Still with us? If so, then you will emerge from the author's thicket of anecdotes, aperçus and subordinate clauses to find your mind stimulated and faith in America renewed. Oh, another problem: Lévy is French. That...
...perhaps a flaw in the Harvard governing system that there’s no mechanism to find out what the University faculty thinks,” Altshuler said...