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...leaders of the University on what their large priorities are,” says former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68. “To really make large scale changes, I think you need a somewhat stronger hand—a stronger hand that’s informed and consultative...
...some, Smith’s unflappable nature is a steadying force in the midst of a financial maelstrom. Faust praised her handpicked dean as one whose guiding hand has been “very steady at a time that has been one of great pressure.” Unfazed even as students and staff noisily protested outside the windows of University Hall during the year’s last Faculty meeting, the computer science professor has a distinctively scientific—perhaps even stoic—approach to the difficulties of the budgetary crisis...
...After the University learned that the endowment had fallen a precipitous 22 percent in December, Smith devoted the bulk of the two subsequent Faculty meetings to explaining the looming budgetary shortfall with powerpoints and hand-written figures—a function that professors came to expect in their dean...
...University’s heavily debt-financed and accelerated Allston expansion was essential for Harvard’s continued scientific competitiveness, and that the planning was not unusually or excessively risky. Rather, they say, a confluence of unfortunate events decimated University budgets and forced Faust’s hand.“It would have been so imprudent and financially impossible to go ahead with this pace and scale,” said University Provost Steven E. Hyman in a recent interview with The Crimson.Whatever the origins of Harvard’s current predicament in Allston, it is clear that...
...that, despite what some CIA loyalists might reflexively think, would be great news for the agency. In fact, if I were Panetta, I would neatly gift wrap counterterrorism, put a bow on the top, and hand it over to FBI Director Robert Mueller. It can't be any clearer that renditions, harsh interrogations (if not torture) and secret prisons have been a catastrophe for the CIA, promising to tie it up legally for years to come, not to mention completely overshadow its successes. With the torture scandal sucking up all the oxygen, who today remembers that...