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...generally laughable history. It is not inherently either liberal or conservative. President Dwight Eisenhower actually did hire McKinsey to redesign the presidency. President Jimmy Carter talked endlessly of "reinventing government." He took the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and turned it into two departments. Then there was Ross Perot, the presidential candidate who babbled about opening the hood of a car and tinkering with the innards. President Bill Clinton showed his lack of interest by assigning the subject to Vice President Al Gore. And now there is Romney, who told the Journal that--depending on the data, of course...
...salaries for Ivy League presidents are not the highest in the country. Baylor College of Medicine President Peter G. Traber earned $1,355,212, making him the top earning university president. If the rankings are expanded to include severance and deferred compensation, Lynn University’s Donald E. Ross tops the charts with earnings over $5.7 million in the 2005-2006 year. Some presidents, on the other hand, decline to take any salary at all. Boston College President William P. Leahy has done just that since at least 1996, the earliest year for which data is provided...
Would that all of us English concentrators could put our degrees to the use that Alex Ross ’90 has. His new book “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century” gives a revolutionary clarity to the history of classical music in America, and shows the world that a senior thesis on James Joyce can indeed pay real-world dividends.A wise teaching fellow once told me that the goal of analyzing literature is to do the opposite of the work itself: if the book is simple, use your argument to complicate...
...critically acclaimed documentaries and films for television—including a segment in last year’s HBO series, “Addiction”—came to Harvard with an interest in painting and studio art.Only in her senior year did she enroll in Ross McElwee’s introductory course in film making, discovering a love for the psychological and drawmatic elements of the art. “Film making, in particular, helped synthesize my other courses,” she says. “It was helping to understand other people. Other things seemed...
...pair of shoes even more). But even if I can’t afford Rialto, the sequel to “Home Cooking” is at The Harvard Book Store for a fraction of the price and none of the calories. —Staff writer Madeline K.B. Ross can be reached at mross@fas.harvard.edu...