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...There was a certain amount of ill will between the Kennedy School and government because Bok had put a lot of money into the Kennedy School,” says Roderick L. MacFarquhar, chair of the government department...
...deemed a capital offense. Oceangoing vessels were destroyed. Eventually, even records of Zheng He's journey were torched. China's heroic age was over; its open door had slammed shut. "The expeditions wasted tens of myriads of money and grain," a 15th century Minister of War complained. Roderick MacFarquhar, a sinologist at Harvard University, characterizes the conservative triumph this way: "Yellow River over blue water...
...It’s more likely that if we’ve got a sensible proposition to put before the dean that we will get a sympathetic ear,” says Roderick MacFarquhar, Williams professor of history and political science and chair of the government department...
...Professors point to Knowles’ establishment of the MacFarquhar committees as unofficial hand-picked bodies, his distaste for vocal dissent, and his decisive, often unexpected intervention in departments as examples of a deanship that is as autocratic as it is diplomatic...
...that "process" has included hiring two new junior and two senior Americanist Faculty members during the last school year, and permission from University officials to recruit three more senior Faculty. MacFarquhar says the hiring committee for these new positions already has its short list of possible offers...