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...just want to emphasize this point. People will help one another if they believe it matters. People will vote, for crying out loud, if they think it matters. This is truly a revolution for democracy and human rights, and as you said, it's just getting started. Galen Panger Stanford, California...
...group charged with finding Harvard's next president is preparing to begin final-round interviews, with Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy, Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, and University of Cambridge chief Alison F. Richard among the names being most seriously considered by the committee, according to two individuals familiar with the group's activities...
...contrast, Etchemendy, 54, has served as Stanford's provost since 2000 and has been on the school's faculty for 24 years. Faust, 59, began teaching at Penn more than three decades ago. Richard, 58, joined the Yale faculty in 1972 and was the school's provost for nearly nine years...
...looking to add at least one prominent scientist to its list of finalists, according to the two individuals. The scientists in consideration include Thomas R. Cech, a 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Steven Chu, a 1997 Nobel laureate in physics at Stanford who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; biologist Eric S. Lander, director of the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute; and chemist Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and a former MIT provost...
Etchemendy wrote in an e-mail in September that he had "no intention or desire to leave my current position, which I believe is the best position in higher education." He told The Stanford Daily last weekend, "My feelings haven’t changed," adding, "I’m sure there are equally qualified and much more appropriate candidates for the position...