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Conrad K. Harper, who has a degree from Harvard Law School (HLS), and Herbert S. Winokur Jr. '64-'65, who also did his master's degree and doctorate at Harvard, will replace current members Judith Richards Hope and Richard A. Smith...
...Harper will be the first non-white person to serve on the Corporation. More powerful even than Harvard's larger Board of Overseers, the seven-person Corporation meets more than 16 times each year to make decisions about Harvard's academic and institutional practices...
...Harper said his distinction of being the first black member of the board is merely a matter of timing and could have gone to many qualified people before...
...There are many persons of color who might have had that distinction," Harper said. "I think that the issue of diversity of students and faculty and staff are permanent issues for American society...
These are some of the trials experienced in recent months by Kate Betts, 35, the newly installed editor in chief at Harper's Bazaar. Since September, when she assumed stewardship of the country's oldest fashion glossy, Betts has been plotting its complete redesign, transforming everything from the magazine's layout to its logo--replacing the elegant typeface with bold lettering that she hopes reflects a more youthful orientation. Formerly the fashion news director at Vogue, she succeeds Liz Tilberis, a beloved editor who died from ovarian cancer last April. Betts inherited a magazine that, despite earning praise...