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...Rounding out the group were D. Ronald Daniel, former chair of McKinsey and Co., a Corporation member, University treasurer, and chair of the Board of the Harvard Management Company, which oversees Harvard's $19 billion endowment; James R. "Jamie" Houghton `58, chair emeritus of Corning, Inc., and a member of the Board of Directors of a half-a-dozen companies ranging from Exxon Mobil to MetLife, who has most recently he has filled his time as the chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the youngest member of the search committee—the only one under 60?...
...committee met as a whole every other weekend, shuttling back and forth between places like Harper's law firm and Houghton's Corning offices in the Trump Towers in New York, and locations in Cambridge, usually Loeb House or the Inn at Harvard...
...World Bank and the Treasury Department. It took a phone call from one of Harvard's most powerful alums, Robert E. Rubin `60—Summers' predecessor as Treasury Secretary and now chair of Citigroup—to defuse the question. Rubin called three search committee members personally, reassuring Houghton, Daniel and Stone that the temper was now a non-issue, that Summers' years in government had softened...
...After a short celebration, elated committee members—Houghton, Gray, Gagnon, and Stone—Summers and University spokesperson Joe Wrinn piled into a convoy of chauffeured sedans and raced for Newark airport. There awaited Houghton's private Corning jet, ready to whisk them to Cambridge and a scheduled 5:30 p.m. press conference to announce to the world that Summers would be the 27th president of Harvard University...
Randall's thwarted publisher, Houghton Mifflin, vigorously disagrees. "We always knew that we were publishing a parody," says executive vice president Wendy Strothman. "Parody is protected. It's something different, because it is meant to ridicule the original. So it's in another class." She cites the naming of characters as part of the parody: "African Americans are often viewed in this country as 'the other,' so to call the analog to Scarlett 'Other' is funny. It's a twist on normal perceptions...