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...London, former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is back in Asia as a private citizen following his Sept. 19 ouster by a military coup. So far he has been spotted riding horses in Beijing, shopping in Hong Kong and golfing in Bali. Where to next? Anywhere but Thailand, where Interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Nov. 12 that Thaksin should stay away for another year, until after elections are held under a new constitution...
Twenty years after then President Derek Bok hired him as the first director of the University’s Center for Ethics, Dennis Thompson is resigning from the post, partly so that now interim president Bok can name his replacement. Thompson, also the Whitehead professor of political philosophy, will step down at the end of the academic year. Bok will personally oversee the search for a replacement. “Part of the reason [for stepping down] is that this year the Center is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and I thought it would be an appropriate time to step down...
First, we fully expect that our loss, like Harvard’s administration, is merely an interim trend...
When this transitional year began, the interim leaders of our university worked hard to emphasize that it would be anything but transitory in its importance. At a Nov. 6 dinner with leading alumni, Provost Steven E. Hyman singled out three movements that were reshaping the world of academia, with our university at its center. Echoing former President Lawrence H. Summers, he broadly stressed Harvard’s ongoing process of internationalization and technological development...
...report’s authors and Head Tutor of philosophy department, wrote in an e-mail over the weekend. “We have talked to many colleagues, but there are many more whom we have not yet had the chance to hear from.” With Interim President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles intent on completing the College’s first curricular review in more than 30 years, the Task Force on General Education—headed by Simmons and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand?...