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Thomas R. Cech, the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a leading contender in Harvard's presidential search, has withdrawn his name from the race.
Cech's experience at Howard Hughes seemed to make him an attractive candidate—as the institute's president he had overseen the construction of a $500-million world-class center for interdisciplinary bioscience research.
In recent weeks, search committee members had expressed particularly strong enthusiasm about the candidacies of Cech and Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust. Provost Steven E. Hyman is expected to remain on the search committee’s list of candidates until the end, but sources familiar with the committee?...
The apartment buildings along Lake Michigan were deluged for a more ominous reason: the water in the Great Lakes is rising to record levels. This year even minor storms may cause major damage. Those who live along the shores of what constitutes the largest body of fresh water in the...
Vice President George Bush, who declared his support for the President's handling of the crisis last week in an interview in TIME, delivered a carefully worded speech on Wednesday to the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank. While the President has refused to say that his arms...