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...metaphors are endless: the headless horseman, the rudderless ship, the car without a driver. Whatever your fancy, each and every one applies to this faculty during this "interim" year. While Judith Ryan, the Weary professor of Germanic languages and comparative literature, proclaimed on this page last June, "As a faculty, we are committed to finding a new way. We continue to move forward energetically," the lackluster progress made over the last semester has proven otherwise...
...Monday’s Crimson, Interim University President Bok said he did not know about the University’s indirect holdings in PetroChina and Sinopec, and that the investments must relate to something that happened prior to his interim presidency. As long as the current ad hoc approach to Darfur-related divestment remains in place, we can expect to see the incoming Harvard president make similarly blinkered statements, which will ultimately undermine Harvard’s good standing on this issue. By contrast, the implementation of a targeted divestment model as a matter of policy provides...
Hyman, 54, who was deputy to ousted Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers and continues to serve as provost under Interim President Derek C. Bok, is not seen as a likely choice by some members of the committee, according to one of the sources...
...including former University of Chicago president Hanna H. Gray and former Princeton president William G. Bowen, according to one of the sources. Gray, who also served on the Harvard Corporation from 1997 to 2005, now chairs the trustee board at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where Cech is president. Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles is also a trustee there...
...Interim President Derek C. Bok, who has written widely on divestiture, said the iShares investments predated his tenure as president, which began July 1. University spokesman John D. Longbrake said the school declines to comment on individual investments...