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...once suggested that he would rather be ruled by a random list of names from the telephone directory than by the Harvard faculty. When Neil Rudenstine took an unprecedented medical leave early on in his presidency, editorialists opinioned on the impossibility of one man holding the reins of so fractious an entity as the modern university. And as early as 1769, Edward Holyoke, Class of 1705, Harvard’s 11th President, and who next to Eliot served in the office longest, famously remarked on his deathbed, “If any man wishes to be humbled and mortified...
Kagan, 46 years old and the dean of Harvard Law School, has gained a reputation as a consensus-driven diplomat who has brought unity to the historically fractious school...
...even in the fractious world of town-gown relations, Kagan and school officials like Story Professor of Law Daniel J. Meltzer ’72, the vice-dean for physical planning, have received high marks from community members...
...passed as currently written, would end decades of total government control over Iraq's mammoth oil reserves and distribute oil income among all the country's regions - a dramatic change from the past and a potential windfall for Big Oil. But it must first get through Iraq's fractious parliament and the country's divisive ethnic politics. Already, the draft shows signs of wrangling and potentially troublesome compromise...
...faces an increasingly fractious Middle East, in the grip of old and new conflicts, each with its own issues and tempo, but all connected to the broader Shi'ite revival that began in Iraq. To get the Middle East right, Washington must contend with this new force and understand how it is shaping the region...