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...trying to remember how to complete the square within an exponent inside an integrand so you can solve the damned integral already—the two most depressing sights are, one, the inevitably ravaged state of brain break, and two, tipsy classmates coming back from lord-knows-where in search of the same non-existent bagels...
Just weeks earlier, however, the appointment was far from certain. As late as January, several members of the search committee were unsure whether Faust, the founding dean of the the University’s smallest academic unit, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, was capable of leading an institution of Harvard’s size, according to three individuals close to the search process...
...outside contender. The group expected to spend the end of January and February contemplating the choice between Cech and Faust, but their hopes of a relaxed deliberation came to an end on Jan. 31, just a few days before Faust’s final interview, when Cech stunned the search committee by announcing he was pulling his name out of the race to be Harvard’s next president...
Cech’s withdrawal threw the search into clumsy acceleration, spurring a flurry of phone calls among committee members in the days that followed. With one of the top candidates out of the race, the committee encountered difficulty arriving at a quick unanimous decision, the three sources said...
...that, Faust went back to what had brought her far in the first place: her scholarship. Faust became a student of the search, studying for hours to answer the questions of her toughest critics...