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...hand, we knew that when Larry met Harry, it wouldn’t necessarily be a romance. Thus, it is quite possible that Lewis’ departure was sparked only by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ desire to staff the administration with “his own?? people, a common move by new managers in any organization (but one sometimes handled with more grace than we saw here). On the other hand, the restructuring might reflect a more fundamental philosophical change, reshaping the administration to focus more on academics—Summers and Dean...
...profoundly disturbing that on the eve of his new job, Gross appears to agree. He seems ambivalent about doing Lewis’s old job along with his own??and who can blame him? Gross is clearly eager to get started on the curricular review, to devote all his time to this immense task, and he deserves the time and resources to do that job well. By saddling him with the combined deanship, Kirby has sabotaged Gross’ plans for curricular review—even as he engineers a system guaranteed to distract from student concerns...
DoubleTake’s editors are, admirably, prepared to pursue their abstract dream no matter what the costs. But if they continue to depend on the borrowed popularity of another artist—even one whose philosophy intersects so closely with their own??the ultimate expression of Dr. Coles’ worthy mission may cease to make its mark...
...itself, but cloak the notion in the rhetoric of Tom Paine and Michael Sandel and you’ve got yourself an Idea, and with it a veritable army of defenders. In an environment of extreme rhetorical posturing founded on rigorous and uncompromising tolerance for speech on its own??a present-day Napoleonic code of inaction—Harvard is the very place for such warlike pageants to flourish...
...good enough to come to Harvard. I think they do about as good a job as humanly possible selecting the right people to admit—but like all human beings, the admissions officers do make the occasional mistake, each year admitting—through no fault of their own??a small but noticeable number of duds...