Word: know
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...lack of consultation during the University’s decision-making process, noting that revelations of the move came as a total shock. Although professors have been meeting with architects since March, they continue to express confusion about the upcoming renovations.“I don’t know anything about them—that’s the problem,” Guidotti said resignedly in an interview last week. “There’s nothing you can say. You can discuss things when one’s opinion is asked before a decision is made...
...close friend and former colleague.Iriye said that May will be remembered as “a man of his word” who was interested in the opinions of his students and colleagues, regardless of their age or position.“As far as I know, there is not a single person who knows him who would be considered his enemy,” Zelikow said, “and that’s a rare thing.”—Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...speech, Kagan offered career advice to a Law School class whose job searches were hit hard by the troubles on Wall Street—where many prestigious law firms have traditionally generated business—and whose attentions have increasingly turned to public service. “I know some of you might have thought in the last year or so, you and this class sort of drew the short straw,” said Kagan, who graduated from the Law School in 1986. “But within all this difficulty there is also incredible potential and promise...
...Advisory Group on Science at the time, recalls the visionary scope of Summers’ ambitions.“A faculty group is not usually convened to just dream big,” Goodman says. “But everyone was told, ‘We want to know what you would do if you didn’t have to worry about the costs.’ It was kind of refreshing.” Summers’ eventual plan for the new campus—first presented to Harvard’s deans at a summer retreat...
...easily—both in University Hall and on the Council.It’s partly personality.Sundquist was a social butterfly (Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin once quipped that walking the Yard with him was like accompanying a governor—”he really knows everyone”). Flores is more reserved.And it’s partly circumstance.Rather than network with administrators, Flores made it her stated priority to focus on relationships with students. But in a semester defined by planned reductions in College spending on student life, Flores was forced to refocus her attention...