Word: presidental
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Ought implies can. Although we agree that the Republican tactic of holding world leadership hostage to abortion politics is distasteful, the staff is foolish to criticize President Clinton for his failure to reach a deal that has no strings attached--a pipe dream in the current Congress.
Neil L. Rudenstine earned about $290,000 as president of Harvard during the '97-'98 academic year, a figure nearly $100,000 less than the median salary of comparable university presidents, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week.
Rudenstine's published salary, which does not include the house the University provides for him, was barely half that of the president of the University of Pennsylvania, Judith Rodin, who earned almost $530,000 in annual pay alone.
The Chronicle found that the nation's highest paid college president during the '97-'98 year, Howard J. Burnett of Washington and Jefferson College, received $1,052,673, which included a bonus when Burnett retired at the end of the year.
"I don't know how you evaluate the numerical worth of what the President does, but it's hard for me not to think that President Rudenstine, with his enormous experience, is a bargain for Harvard at $290,000," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message.