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Then again, Crimson in Triumph is more of a mentality than a chronology, with "Triumph" the key word...
Enter Derek Bok, who at 41, was dean of the Law School in 1971. Instead of arresting students who seized a room in Langdell Library, Bok discussed academic policies with protesters over donuts and coffee through the night. Low-key, rational, and highly effective...
While at the school's helm, this Philadelphia-born labor law expert has moulded Harvard's metamorphosis in several key areas: the endowment more than tripled to $3 billion; graduate schools, like the Kennedy School of Government, have rapidly expanded; and, in what Bok calls the most significant change of all, undergraduate life became co-educational when Radcliffe signed a merger agreement with Harvard...
...seeking to match the weeks of conferences and the international gathering of scholars that marked the University's 300th birthday in 1936, Harvard officials sought to create a comparatively low-key "family affair" this time around. Maybe it's the domino effect, or the Statue of Liberty syndrome, or the glitz-it-up promotionalism of the Yuppie Era. Call it what you will. But my God, Dr. Frankenstein, Harvard's created a monster. And it's alive...
...this month, an average of 1,258 landings or departures were delayed each day at 22 U.S. metropolitan airports. While that is less than 8% of the roughly 16,000 flights scheduled daily, the problem is especially bad at certain key airports. The number of late flights at New Jersey's Newark airport is running 40% above last year's and is the highest in the nation: an average of 146 delays for every 1,000 takeoffs or landings. Other laggards include New York's La Guardia (91 delays per 1,000 operations), Boston's Logan (72), New York...