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...year and half ago almost no one had heard of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), whose 20 faculty fellows were quietly researching agricultural development programs in Kenya, trying to improvement in Mali, and sending teams to dig wells in the Sudan from the sixth floor of a tastefully modern office building on Cambridge St. But last winter, when President Bok offered the institute's directorship to Arnold C. Harberger, a University of Chicago economist who had been a consultant to Chile's repressive military regime, a storm of student and faculty protest went up, Harberger declined the position...
...flood of attention is over, most wounds have healed, and the institute has reverted to its customary low profile with apparent relief. "Basically," says an HIID fellow who was vocal in his opposition to Harberger, "last spring we had a lot of trouble, and this spring we've all gone back to work...
...then offered the post to a safer choice, Dwight H. Perkins, chairman of the Economics Department. This time Bok carefully consulted with both the HIID Faculty Council and HIID fellows, who approved his decision...
Sources within the University of Chicago offered the final ironic footnote to the episode: Harberger never intended to accept the HIID appointment in the first place, they said. Suffering from a tarnished reputation within his own department, Harberger latched onto the Harvard offer as an ideal way to boost his status among his Chicago colleagues and possibly jack up his salary...
...more vocal controversy this spring, the University showed the hypocrisy of its appointment policies. Bok nominated efficiency-oriented Chicago economist Arnold C. Harberger to head the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) without consulting the HIID Faculty Council--or considering that it might be wrong for a professor whose policies enacted in Chile caused starvation and misery to lead an institution that advises foreign governments...