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Harvard’s next interim president, Derek C. Bok, who oversaw the implementation of the current Core Curriculum during his first term as the University’s chief, said in an e-mail Friday that he will not impose his ideas for the curricular review on the Faculty...
...learned the weekend before last that he would be serving as interim president, wrote that he has “simply not had time enough to speak intelligently about curricular reform at Harvard...
...assure you, however,” he added, “that I don’t believe an interim president should try to ‘impose’ curricular ideas on the Faculty even if I had the power...
...Army Corps of Engineers charged with making short-term repairs to the levee system by the start of storm season. To date, the Corps has signed nearly $400 million in repair contracts. All around town its crews can be seen working to restore levees, fix flood walls and install interim floodgates and bypass pumps. But for months the mantra around New Orleans has been that in the longer term, the city must have more--namely storm protection sufficient to resist a Category 5 storm. (Katrina was at most a Category 4 when it hit land.) "We have got to feel...
...interim president, Derek C. Bok will face pressure from students who want Harvard to cut its ties to an oppressive African regime. For Bok, it may seem like déjà vu.When Bok was at Harvard’s helm in the late 1970s, the campus was consumed by a controversy over the University’s financial links to apartheid-era South Africa.Bok, who returns to Mass. Hall on July 1, took a skeptical stance toward divestment demands.In open letters to the Harvard community, Bok wrote that he believed divestment was unlikely to help end apartheid, and might...