Word: presidental
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He says he sees his time at Harvard as a way to unwind from the pressures of speechwriting and reflect on his work with President Clinton.
President Neil L. Rudenstine traveled in person last week to Capitol Hill and the White House in an attempt to save government funding to federal research agencies that sponsor university work.
A compromise budget bill currently before Congress--which promises less tax cuts than a sweeping Republican measure vetoed recently by President Clinton--still would slash funding for research work in both the sciences and the humanities.
President Neil L. Rudenstine has traditionally played little role in the life of a Harvard undergraduate. His tenure has emphasized fund-raising as the main role of the President of the University, and although we are now beginning to reap the benefits of the expanded endowment, undergraduates may feel that...
But Rudenstine's role in lobbying Congress to maintain federal funding levels for university research programs, all the more crucial since the departure of Harvard's Washington point-person, Vice-President James H. Row III '73, is a welcome use of Harvard's prestige for a purpose beyond enlarging the...