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...schools, Harvard is not living up to its own standard when it refuses to democratize and consolidate the voice of its professoriate. Some voice concern over the formulation of a representative body of faculty on the grounds that it will encourage an atmosphere of politicking. But if any lesson can be drawn from the events of past weeks, it’s that Harvard is not above politics. Harvard is, however, institutionally impoverished when it comes to facilitating fairness and transparency in its politics. We hope that the formation of a University senate will enrich campus-wide dialogue by facilitating...
...attention my opinions have commanded. Complete strangers, now subjects to my wisdom, have proffered me distinguished titles, anointing me a “raging douche-bag,” or a “deplorably intolerant” bigot more than ready for a “lesson in humility and tolerance.” One correspondent even went so far as to suggest that I gormandize a particularly unappetizing portion of his anatomy. Uncomfortable, perhaps, but the kind spirit underlying the recommendation I appreciated nonetheless.Secure in my knowledge that I am not only the smartest, but also the most...
...succeeds Larry Summers, the Faculty will still be there.Those dismayed by last week’s untimely coup can take solace in the fact that Harvard is more funhouse and less emblem of American society. The resignation is an incident so preposterous, so exceptional that there are no big lessons to be gleaned. Rather, there are only circumspect, spurious lessons—lessons not in the sense that they are morals to live by, but in the sense that they gesture toward the University’s sacred cows, to which a president must pay unabated homage if he hopes...
...cuts. In that environment, Renault appears to be defying gravity by promising ambitious results without the pain of slashing labor costs. Indeed, Ghosn is promising to increase annual car sales by 800,000 units by 2009, double operating profit margins, and improve product and brand quality. "The lesson of the Nissan revival plan was what's vital is the result, not the precise means of attaining it," says Ghosn, 52. "We've analyzed the opportunities and potentials at Renault, and made clear commitments on the results we'll deliver." The end result, he predicts, will be "the most profitable European...
...diversity of thought is not tolerated on the left and especially not within the cocoon that engulfs the Harvard Faculty. Even though I share some of the shame that taints Harvard today, I do grant that at least the Faculty has delivered (albeit unintentionally) one vivid history lesson to Dr. Summers—he now has first-hand knowledge of how Galileo must have felt...