Word: institutionalized
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To get the nod for Harvard’s highest post, she would have to convince the committee that she could lead an institution of 10 schools, nearly 2,200 faculty, some 20,000 students, and a budget approaching $3 billion.
In public, he claimed he had “the best position in higher education,” privately telling friends that he did not have any desire to leave Stanford, an institution that he felt already led Harvard in its teaching and research efforts, the source said.
“These days, you don’t take a major institution of any kind and put it into the hands of someone—however bright and however good—who’s never had a significant role in at least running part of a...
“If the institution that you have spent your whole life in is in trouble, do you turn your back on it? To me, that was very simple. Obviously, you don’t. You do what you can,” Bok said last week.
According to figures compiled by the Brookings Institution at the end of May, the number of sectarian murders, carried out mainly by Shi'ite death squads against Sunnis, has risen noticeably in recent weeks after a drop-off that began in the latter part of February. Sectarian deaths are often...