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...Unfortunately, Megawati, Indonesia's third president since 1999, hasn't been up to the task. Even her supporters label her slow-moving and indecisive. Megawati was sworn in last year after a crisis during which her beleaguered predecessor, Abdurrahman Wahid, tried to call emergency rule to save himself from impeachment. Since then, she's been paralyzed by countervailing political forces. After years of repression, social groups of all types, from religious organizations to labor, are asserting themselves in Indonesia's new democracy, looking to right old wrongs and creating a cacophony of competing interests...
Hyman’s predecessor as provost, Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, pushed hard to have the system changed. But ultimately nothing came of his proposal to loosen the system...
...social life of undergraduates is not a problem that often weighs on the mind of a Harvard president. It is heartening to see, then, that University President Lawrence H. Summers—who has invested much more heavily that his predecessor in winning undergraduates’ favor—spoke at length about life in the College at the Undergraduate Council meeting Sunday night. Measured on the scale of improving social life, however, one of the main changes discussed at the meeting—assigning all students in each Yard dorm to a specific House at the beginning of their...
...turned a blind eye on the College’s violation; after all, it also decided that HLS recruiting ban was kosher. But the recent reversal of that position demonstrates that the present administration is a mite more concerned about anti-military bias at elite universities than was its predecessor. If Rumsfeld wants to overcome the institutional rules through which that bias has become entrenched, he should not limit his gaze to the law school...
...considerably less serious note, Summers also recently differentiated himself from his predecessor through hosting Sunday’s Tercentenary Yard screening of Ferris Bueller. Over 750 votes were cast for either Ferris Bueller or its rivals on the “It’s Movie Time” ballot, and the film was attended by more than 3,000 members of the Harvard community. Rudenstine’s MIA approach to participation in campus life was reflected in the cynicism with which some students, unaccustomed to presidential involvement in student activities, greeted the event, but the screening itself proved...