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Concluding a seven-month search process, the University of Pennsylvania yesterday nominated Yale provost Judith Rodin to be Penn's new president...
...Penn Board of Trustees is expected to ratify the nomination on December 16, making Rodin, 49, the first woman to head an Ivy League institution...
...nomination of Judith Rodin is excellent news not only for Penn but for all of higher education," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine. "She is a person of extraordinary skill and insight, and all of us in the university community will benefit from her leadership and good counsel...
...Rodin will succeed Penn's interim president Claire Fagin, who took over when former president Sheldon Hackney was chosen by President Clinton to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities...
...sometimes becomes, the human torso. The "mutilated Eden" of Poland's forest turns into a metaphor of human loss and survival. In the Marlborough show are four bronzes, each 10 ft. to 12 ft. high, called Hand-Like Trees, whose vertical trunks do resemble arms: their looming profiles recall Rodin's standing Balzac, and their vigorous modeling around a split core provokes a distant memory of Matisse's bronze Backs...