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...elect Drew Gilpin Faust said in a phone interview this evening that Harvard has been reinvigorated during the tenure of Interim President Derek C. Bok, and that she is now ready to continue the University’s expansion into Allston and watch over the completion of the curricular review. When asked how long she would stay in office, Faust said only that she hoped to have “a long and successful term,” noting Bok’s prediction at an earlier press conference that she would serve 30 or 40 years. On the subject...
...December I wrote about the Hannibal Rising novel for this website. You may consult that review for a fuller history of the character, but here's the essential part...
...will be able to grasp intellectually the material and to understand programmatically what’s needed,” Grosz said last month. Though Faust will have the opportunity to bring new projects to the docket, she will also have to tackle the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review and the search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Faust had been considered a leading candidate for that post, and her selection as president now throws new doubt into the looming dean search. Some have speculated that Harvard will look to a scientist for the Faculty...
...need of reform. The new president cannot afford to sit idle while undergraduate education slides into confusion under the watch of an indecisive Faculty. The most recent and final general education report outlines a range of new distribution requirements, but sorely lacks details for its implementation. After a curricular review process that has taken over four years and the release of a pedagogy report that risks being ignored, the onus is on Faust to ensure that no more time is wasted in fixing Harvard’s broken undergraduate experience...
...very important people. In Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward quotes General Tommy Franks - appalled at the quality of intelligence about Iraq - railing that Feith, then the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, was "the f---king stupidest guy on the face of the earth." Today, there was another bad review. Feith got publicly slapped by the Defense Department's inspector general for developing pro-war intelligence on Iraq - outside of official channels - that now seems plainly wrong. The IG concludes that Feith's office, on a free-lance basis, made claims "that were inconsistent with the consensus of the intelligence community...