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...under contract to serve as vice-chancellor of Cambridge through 2010. (The chancellorship is a ceremonial post held by Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip.) One former colleague suggests that before returning to England in 2003, Richard, who is 58, insisted that her term at Cambridge last seven years, rather than the expected five...
Last month, her office released a statement saying that Richard “remains deeply committed to Cambridge and does not consider herself a candidate for the Presidency of Harvard...
...even if Richard does not consider herself a candidate, friends and colleagues throughout academia have begun to consider the possibility seriously...
...think she would be terrific,” says Yale anthropologist John F. Szwed who has known Richard for 25 years. “I think she would be something in the best tradition and a breath of fresh...
...When Richard arrived in Cambridge in the summer of 2003, she did what any proper Oxbridge don would do: she bought a bicycle. Shortly after being inaugurated as the 344th vice-chancellor of Cambridge—the first woman to hold the position full-time in Cambridge’s nearly 800-year history—Richard rode that bicycle into a cow. The pink pages of London’s Financial Times picked up the story...