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Conrad K. Harper, a 1965 graduate of the Law School and a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, has long harbored serious qualms about Summers, according to several current and former Harvard officials familiar with the Corporation. Harper has been particularly critical of Summers’ abrasive management style and made those objections clear during the presidential search, say the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity...
Summers and Harper crossed paths once before Harvard, when they both held major posts in the Clinton administration. From 1993 to 1996, Harper was the top legal adviser to the State Department, which maintained a notorious rivalry with the Treasury over control of Clinton’s foreign policy. If Harper followed the party line at the time, his distaste for Summers may have begun in Washington...
...Harper’s objections now are an open-secret among observers of the Corporation, and many have speculated that when the board moved to issue its first public statement supporting Summers in February, Harper refused to put his name...
...York attorney Conrad K. Harper ’62, glass company executive James R. Houghton ’58, and economist Robert D. Reischauer ’63 have the ultimate authority over the University’s divestiture decisions...
...International Role Model,” Chretien, seeks to threaten not only the Canadian Liberal Party, but also the idea of what it means to be Canadian. The scandal threatens to remove the Liberals from government and to replace them with the increasingly popular Conservative party. Its leader, Stephen Harper, states that he “supports the traditional definition of marriage.” Should the Conservatives come to power, marriage equality will be threatened, marijuana will remain illicit, and Canada’s liberal image will slowly dissolve...