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...poised to have great influence over Harvard’s future path.‘THE BOSTON PHONE BOOK’Students, faculty, and staff opened their e-mail inboxes in mid-April to find a note from Houghton soliciting their advice on the search. Hard copies of the letter were mailed to about 320,000 alumni.In response, eager friends of the University have submitted an enormous list of potential candidates—“the size of the Boston phone book,” says the chair of the faculty advisory group, Sidney Verba ’53.For...
...announcement was set for 9 a.m. that Tuesday, but the statement was delayed until shortly after 1 p.m. due to last-minute negotiations, according to two professors close to Mass. Hall. One of the professors says that Corporation members were attempting to dilute the acerbity of Summers’ letter, while the other says it was the severance-package negotiations that caused the delay. In the end, Summers’ letter stated that “rifts” with “segments” of the FAS faculty had made his ability to govern “infeasible...
After releasing the letter, Summers held an afternoon press conference and clasped hands with students and supporters who had gathered outside of his Mass. Hall office for a photo shoot. He capped off the afternoon with a round of drinks with his staff in a room adjacent to his office...
...exaggerating how they feel to get what they want, especially when their desires are in conflict with yours. Fight only for things you really care about and compromise when you can.Third, trust others, even when it means risking your own lot. In Che Guevara’s farewell letter to Castro, he wrote that his only regret was not trusting Castro sooner. (Whatever we think of Castro, he certainly did good things for Che.) Putting your trust in people will empower them to do incredible things, and that includes taking over countries (N.B.: guns and bombs won?...
...McCafferty novels. “Based on the scope and character of the similarities, it is inconceivable that this was a display of youthful innocence or an unconscious or unintentional act,” a representative for Random House said in a statement on Tuesday, April 25. In a letter obtained by The Crimson, a Random House lawyer put it more bluntly, writing to Little, Brown that “we are certain that some literal copying actually occurred here.”More developments unfolded at a rapid pace. That Thursday, Little, Brown asked bookstores to take...