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Interest in Tibet comes at a critical time. The Dalai Lama is 65, and it's unclear if anyone can unite the fractured community of Tibetan exiles after he dies. The identity of Tibet's second-highest religious figure, the Panchen Lama, is disputed. The Communist Party is promoting one 10-year-old boy and detaining the Dalai Lama's choice, making him the world's youngest religious prisoner. Next in the ranks, the Karmapa, is 15 and stunned Beijing last year by trekking through the Himalayas to India, where he warned that "Tibetan religious traditions and culture now face...
Gusmorino has contacted the committee and has discussed the search with Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and others. This Sunday, he is scheduled to meet with the Board of Overseers--Harvard's second-highest governing board, and the final stamp of approval on the selection--and will talk to them about issues he thinks should concern the University president...
...Harvard's search committee began collecting suggestions from the community this summer. In mid-October, search committee members announced that they had a list of 400 candidates. A former member of the Board of Overseers, the University's second-highest governing board, said that Simmons had probably been nominated...
...Noah says the vice president is a much more realistic prospect than his boss is. Gore is a former member of the Board of Overseers, the university's second-highest governing board...
Last season, the Ivy League had four teams receive bids, the second-highest total of any conference behind only the ACC. It is unclear whether the committee would award the league that same number of entries again. In the year before last, just two Ivy teams earned selections; in 1997, the Ivy champion was the league's only representative...