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...first and only female vice-president of Harvard, O'Neill manages to walk the shaky tightrope between the professional, the political and the personal as successfully as she juggles University-community concerns...
With a Speaker of the House as a father-in-law and a former lieutenant governor for a husband, O'Neill has developed a knack for political negotiation by osmosis in her 17 years of marriage. A Dedham native herself, the 40-year-old O'Neill became intimate with every door of Cambridge during the campaigns of various members of her family...
...Neill works hard at the Office of Community Affairs to improve the once-polarized relations between town and gown. "When the University does something, no matter how insignificant it may seem, we have to consider the consequences, actual or perceived, in the community," she says...
...Neill's philosophy of community relations, she says, is based on recognizing the need to include every voice in the community in a non-bureaucratic way, and to understand Cantabrigians' ambiguous feelings towards Harvard--a mixture of pride and resentment...
...creating a committee made up of representatives from surrounding neighborhoods, O'Neill has pioneered an elaborate system of information-sharing among community leaders and Harvard officials, to prove to them both that "there is very little difference between a `Harvard person' and a `community person'," she says...