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Faust, a noted Civil War historian, co-chaired the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering, which was formed in response to the outrage over Summers’ remarks...
...RELATED COVERAGE January 12, 2007 Deft Historian May Be Harvard's Future January 10, 2007 Search Panel Pares Short List January 8, 2007 Woman To Take the Lead? December 5, 2006 Panel Considers 30 for Top Job February 21, 2005 Summers Resigns; Bok To Serve As Interim President January 24, 2005 Faust To Lead New Initiative November 4, 2003 Faust Says She'll Stay at Harvard January 5, 2001 Faust Takes Over At Radcliffe
...What often happens is that you look into something as an amateur historian, or a journalist, and a couple of years later you find it's trickled down into the bit the novels come from. The unconscious. A different ventricle of the heart. Generically fiction is a more intimate form, so you're going to get - perhaps you hope to get - closer to the essence of it, the human essence. Because history is from above, and fiction's from below. It's closer in, more immediate...
...there is a permanent struggle over the meaning of justice, and the answering virtue of mercy is not much at home. The result has been a drama of mutual follies -- of fierce immobilities interlocked, shaken now and then by spasms of violence. In her book The March of Folly, Historian Barbara Tuchman argues that through the ages governments have shown a propensity to pursue policies contrary to their own interests. The first example of freely chosen disaster that she cites was Rehoboam's loss of the northern kingdom of Judea and its conquest by the Assyrians nearly 3,000 years...
...about $16 million, many faculty and administrators have praised Faust’s deft leadership style and experience making decisions across academic disciplines. If she were selected for the top post, she would oversee a budget of about $3 billion and almost 25,000 employees. A Civil War historian, Faust would be expected to head a university that plans to aggressively step up its commitment to the sciences. The Crimson granted anonymity to the six sources because the committee’s work is considered confidential and the individuals’ relationships with members of the committee would be compromised...