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Former Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine said in an interview from Puerto Rico Friday evening that he "couldn't be happier" about the choice of Drew Gilpin Faust to be president...
...Rubin's dominance of this year's Grammy Album category is unprecedented. So is the fact that other than platinum sales, his nominated discs--one country, one rock and one pop/soul--have absolutely nothing in common. Factor in his other big releases of the past two years--albums by Weezer, Neil Diamond and Johnny Cash--and it's clear his aesthetic range is essentially limitless...
...television series you should call in all the favors and bring in all your friends any way you can. You can expect a guest star in every episode,” said Koechner. The pair hinted at a partial guest list, including comic Jim Turner, Andy Richter, Neil Flynn from “Scrubs,” and their old touring buddies, Tenacious D. An early episode features guest Will Ferrell challenging Naked Trucker to a road race, then slicing the front tire of his truck before taking off on foot to the finish line. But special guests don?...
...course, one need not go back that far to see the mind of the Corporation at work. The Renaissance scholar and humane listener Neil L. Rudenstine, who, as one critic put it, “acted like a dean,” and whose capacity for deference made him seem a pushover to many (he wasn’t), was succeeded by the tough talking and tough acting Lawrence H. Summers, whose advent was described as “a new sheriff in town.” If the Corporation behaves true to form, it will be looking...
From time to time, people ask, “Is Harvard ungovernable?’ William F. Buckley, no friend of Harvard, once suggested that he would rather be ruled by a random list of names from the telephone directory than by the Harvard faculty. When Neil Rudenstine took an unprecedented medical leave early on in his presidency, editorialists opinioned on the impossibility of one man holding the reins of so fractious an entity as the modern university. And as early as 1769, Edward Holyoke, Class of 1705, Harvard’s 11th President, and who next to Eliot served...