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Although the "Old Guard" is still in place--Sally H. Zeckhauser remains HRE's first and only president after nine years at the helm--a close reading of the real estate section of any local newspaper revealed a marked change in the way HRE conducted business this year...
Derek C. Bok, who is in the sixteenth year of his presidency, has not had to wait so long as Eliot, who is famous for leading Harvard into the 20th century. Bok, a 57 year-old former Law School Dean, has been at the helm of Harvard as it has adjusted to the complicated, modern age of universities. In the last decade and a half, Bok has maintained a firm consensus which has allowed the University to rapidly expand as its endowment soared from $725 million to nearly $4 billion...
...change has not come with growing pains. During his 16 years at the helm, he has seen harsh criticism of Harvard's undergraduate education...
...future reflects his prominence. Administrators predict that fresh back from a sabbatical, Bok is ready for up to four more years at Harvard's helm. Prognosticators here and elsewhere say that he may be in line for an ambassadorship similar to that of retiring Yale President Kingman Brewster took a post at the Court of St. James. Others say he may take the helm of an educational foundation as Nathan M. Pusey '28 did when he left Harvard to head the Mellon Foundation...
...Queen Elizabeth Conference Center, Neil Kinnock, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, strode onto the podium to describe a joyless, divided Britain, an "economically and socially disabled" country afflicted with Dickensian misery. Two hours later, at Conservative Party headquarters near Westminster Abbey, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at the helm for the past eight years, evoked a very different nation, one with "revived spirit and restored reputation," a land that could boast of being Western Europe's "fastest-growing economy." The previous day, Britain's third political force, the Social Democratic-Liberal Party Alliance, had outlined a more subdued picture...