Word: houghton
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...Houghton ultimately wrote back to Abernathy. But Summers stayed...
...height of the previous year’s crisis, Houghton had issued two statements in support of Summers. Now, however, the president stood alone...
...weeks leading up to the contentious Faculty meeting, Keohane, Reischauer, and Houghton had been actively soliciting opinions on Summers, according to several FAS professors. In those conversations, Corporation members remained outwardly optimistic about the president’s chances...
Shortly after his return from Europe, Houghton put his Valentine’s Day plan into motion...
With Hyman and Keohane out of the running, the Corporation turned to its fail-safe backup: Bok. For Houghton, who himself had reprised his role as chairman and chief executive of the glassworks and fiber-optics maker Corning in 2002 after a six-year hiatus, Bok seemed reliable, according to a source who spoke with Houghton. The only thing left to do was to convince a 75-year-old man to leave the beaches of Florida for a bitterly divided university in Massachusetts...