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...according to Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol, just because Summers is more direct than his predecessor does not mean professors cannot be heard. “He’s a vigorous questioner and a critical listener,” she says. “If he doesn’t agree, he’s likely to say that. You can get through to him if you’re well-prepared and talk back...
...College Harry R. Lewis ’68 reflects on the issues that affected the school at the turn of the 20th century. “Remarkably,” he writes with an unseen shake of his head, “the major themes sounded by my distant predecessor, L.B.R. Briggs, in his annual report…are strikingly similar to several mentioned [here].” It would seem that Lewis has hit the proverbial nail on the head. Many of the problems students, Faculty members and administrators faced in the past continue to plague the College...
According to Fish, Barnaby gave his predecessor, Harry Cowles, credit for his own success...
...already demonstrated that on her own, she doesn’t have the political clout of her spectacularly successful predecessor, Paul A. Gusmorino ’02. Her recent installation speech dismayed more than one voter: during her campaign, the overriding message was that she wanted to continue Gusmorino’s legacy of student services. Now, that promise has been overshadowed by her saying she wants the council to discuss more controversial and political campus issues, including Harvard’s hotly-debated approach to the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), which is not officially supported by Harvard...
...bureaucrats had been scheming for months to get rid of Tanaka; Koizumi's backpedaling makes him look like a wimp - and a carbon copy of all the losers who preceded him in office. Even more dispiriting is his most recent choice of confidant, none other than his hapless predecessor, the most unpopular Prime Minister Japan has ever had, Yoshiro Mori. "This is the beginning of the betrayal to the nation by Koizumi," declared veteran political writer Makoto Sataka. "The secret of his popularity was based on the fact that he doesn't make conventional judgments. Now he has adopted...