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Next month, as he departs to become provost of the University, he leaves a school on the mend but not fully recovered from a series of abrupt leadership changes and its own too-rapid expansion in the 1980s...
...Such rapid flux is relatively rare at Harvard, where deans such as John H. McArthur of the Business School and Daniel C. Tosteson '46 of the Medical School lend a sense of stability to their schools with tenures of a decade or more...
This lack of direction dates back to the origins of the school and its rapid growth over the last 20 years...
Fallows dismisses Tokyo's current economic downturn as nothing more than a temporary setback, similar to those that followed the huge boost in oil prices in 1972 and the rapid appreciation of the yen in 1985. Both times the Japanese economy came back leaner and, Fallows believes, meaner than ever. Now, he says, Japan and East Asia will present an overwhelming challenge to the U.S. Although the U.S. remains the world's largest (and still most productive) national economy, Fallows predicts that unless it adopts a more interventionist national economic policy and consumes less while saving more, it will...
...cure for cancer was announced today, what then? Does our government have a rapid-deployment plan, the medical equivalent of a military rapid-deployment plan? Hundreds of thousands of terminal cancer patients would read nothing but good news until the day they died, knowing all the while that their problem was not cancer but the institutional inertia that separates discovery from deployment...