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Replacing Bean in the Crimson Yard will be Lesley Nye, who served as the interim dean of the Elm Yard when Wendy E. F. Torrence took a maternity leave from the position in the spring...
...Nye, who received a doctorate from Harvard last month, has done scholarly research on the first-year experience. She has also taught at a public high school in Houston and worked at a drop-out prevention program in Washington, D.C. through the Teach for America program...
...have no doubt that she will contribute fresh perspectives on a wide range of important issues,” Bean said of Nye...
...turn itself into a domestic CIA? "The question now is, How quickly can you change a complex political culture?" says Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Spy agencies such as the CIA are all about cracking codes, uncovering secrets. "During the cold war," Nye says, "they didn't believe it was important unless you had to steal it. But some of the biggest and hardest questions are mysteries--and most of the answers to a mystery are available in the public domain and just have to be assembled." At the FBI, "getting people...
After learning that its budget deficit will be twice what it had expected, the Kennedy School plans major cuts in programs. Dean Nye says some employees will have to be terminated to deal with the $5.6 million deficit...