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Members of the presidential search committee met yesterday afternoon with Harvard’s alumni overseers. But after a closed-doors session inside Loeb House, it appeared last night that the University was not ready to name a permanent successor to Lawrence H. Summers.In recent days, the committee had been most seriously considering Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust for the presidency, according to two sources familiar with the search committee’s activities. If the committee has agreed on a president, Faust would likely be the search panel’s choice, according to the two individuals...
...soon as Summers was out, speculation about his likely successor began. The conventional wisdom in the election of a Harvard president is that the Corporation nearly always elects someone who is the polar opposite of the most recent occupant of the office. In 1701, in seeking to find a successor to the aggressively pious Increase Mather, Class of 1656, the Corporation finally ended up in 1708 with John Leverett, Class of 1680, Harvard’s first lay president and its first lawyer. Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, who had hoped to succeed his father, was so furious at this...
Then last Sunday Clinton, under pressure from antiwar activists in Iowa, reacted indignantly to matter-of-fact statements by Bush that the broader war on terrorism--and the war in Iraq--wouldn't be resolved by the time his successor took office. Clinton took offense: "I think it's the height of irresponsibility, and I really resent it. This was his decision to go to war; he went with an ill-conceived plan and incompetently executed strategy, and we should expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office." This was an odd statement. After...
Whether Rice can steer the U.S. away from a military confrontation with Tehran is one of the two big challenges that will define the final years of her tenure--and the legacy she leaves for her successor. The other is even more daunting: making peace in the Middle East. Those who have spoken to her say her determination to seek a comprehensive settlement between Israel and the Palestinians is real. A senior Arab official says that on her trip to the region last month, Rice pledged to help set up a Palestinian state by the end of Bush's term...
...Ballet School, but the seeds had been sown back on the family farm. "Even before I started dancing," he recalls, "I used to listen to music and imagine bodies flying through space." For how much longer at ADT, one can only surmise. Stewart was recently mentioned as a possible successor to Graeme Murphy at the Sydney Dance Company, but with ADT commitments taking him well into 2008, he is so far keeping mum. "I had a journalist ring me up and say, 'I've heard you've got the SDC job,' " he recalls. "I said, 'I must check...