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...served four times as long as Summers, and Neil L. Rudenstine, who served twice as long. Indeed, if the Summers presidency is ultimately judged by the headlines he made in national newspapers, the record will not be flattering. For far more ink was spilled on former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, Israeli divestment, differences in intrinsic aptitude between men and women in the sciences, administrative turnover, and Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82, than on initiatives in life sciences and globalization or reform of undergraduate education. Summers’ political capital...
However absurd the cereal wars may appear, Roth says he is simply trying to act before the really big guys muscle in on his highly expansible idea. "Starbucks could easily start selling cereal, catering to a sophisticated palate, to complement their coffee," says Laurence Knight, president of Fletcher-Knight, a marketing consultancy based in Greenwich, Conn...
...Lorand Matory ’82 asked Summers how he planned to increase the number of non-white administrators and professors and whether Summers had any plans to attempt to lure former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 back to Harvard. Summers reiterated a commitment to diversity, but declined to comment on “individual faculty matters...
...written that Mai is “a Rosa Parks for a new century: a woman simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary, who transcended her role and started a broad movement for justice.”The Crimson interviewed Mai after her speech this past Saturday at Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The interview was conducted in Urdu and English though an interpreter, Hassan Abbas, a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government.The Harvard Crimson: Tell us about the work you’re doing now, especially in regards to education.Mukhtar Mai: We now have the first...
...member at Harvard who doesn’t have a “Larry story”: an account of some unpleasant encounter with the president, in which he was unnecessarily hostile or dismissive, alienating or offending someone (or everyone) in the room. As with the departure of former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, these are often private meetings, wherein Summers can act as unprofessionally as possible without the threat of public record or recourse. Whether asserting his belief that economists are smarter than other social scientists, or routinely disparaging members of faculty, Summers?...