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When former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60 steps to the podium in Tercentenary Theater tomorrow to deliver the keynote address, he will be only the latest in a long line of influential Harvard Commencement speakers...
Rounding out a trio of economist speakers in recent years-following Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan in 1999 and Amartya K. Sen, an emeritus Harvard economics professor, in 2000--Rubin, now chair of Citigroup, was selected by an alumni committee and University President Neil L. Rudenstine in April...
...Rubin follows the trend of his fellow economists' speeches of the past two years, he will bring a global perspective to the Commencement stage...
...When selecting a speaker, Hunt says that the committee should have kept the interests of the outgoing Harvard president in mind. Although incoming University President Lawrence H. Summers is, like Rubin, an economist, Hunt describes Rudenstine as a "very eloquent humanist," and says "someone closer to his [Rudenstine's] interests in liberal arts" would have been a better choice...
...Rubin has already been alerted about the plans for a protest and Landreth said she hopes he will respond...