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...good feeling for what it’s like to live in a university and manage university life,” Putnam says. “So the reason that she came to play such an important role in that period is that she was the one person in the Corporation who was able to translate what was actually happening on campus to the Corporation...
...Following Summers’ resignation, Keohane was briefly considered for the interim presidency, but she took herself out of the running. Instead, she and the Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton, travelled in person to Sarasota, Fla. to convince Bok to come out of retirement. Still, just days after Summers’ resignation, Keohane’s name was being added to lists of possible permanent presidents...
...with Skocpol on her way out of University Hall, her legacy will be in the hands of the person whose job, by many accounts, she wanted...
Some, however, were not so sanguine, and in the person of Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker they found an advocate to express their anxiety about the role of religion, particularly under the category of “Faith and Reason” in a required undergraduate curriculum. Old hostilities to religion as a legitimate area of inquiry were aroused, as was the specter of sinister creationists and out-of-the-closet Jesuits. It was bad enough to have a large and visible chapel here, but to give faith and reason a place in a curriculum long ceded to scientism...
...dean’s legitimacy. No more in this case than in the others does the subsequent apology erase the humiliation of a victim whose mountain of accomplishment is so swiftly reduced to rubble, based on the unreflective impulse, willful ignorance, or hallucinations of an underdeveloped white person...