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...years at the United Nations were not a "triumph of high achievement," but the Secretary-General was a force for civility throughout. His work-and the efforts of the U.N. inspection teams?in the months leading up to the Iraq war deserves special mention. The U.N.'s search for weapons of mass destruction was rigorous and accurate: there were no weapons to be found. Annan quietly understood that an American invasion would be a disaster. He suffered physically and mentally over his failure to prevent the war. After the invasion, he experienced a mild nervous collapse. For a time...
Sources close to the search say that an insider might receive a marginal preferential treatment...
...John M. Isaacson, a Law School alum and managing director of Boston-based executive search firm Isaacson, Miller, says that inside candidates can also be hurt by already being entrenched in local politics...
Among the names being vetted by the search committee are Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow, Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger, Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy, Institute of Medicine President Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, Penn President Amy Gutmann ’71, University of Cambridge head Alison F. Richard, Brown President Ruth J. Simmons, and Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman...
...evaluations. For evaluations to be meaningful, all students—not just those with the strongest positive and negative feelings—must complete them with the knowledge that their comments could appear in their instructor’s teaching portfolio to be read by hundreds of faculty search committee members across the country...