Word: successors
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...Rosovsky will step down next June does more than prompt and assessment of the dean's successes and failures. It also, in light to Rosovsky's great impact in the University's second most powerful post, underscores the need for a careful, open and wide-ranging search for a successor...
...Rosovsky has made his share of mistakes, and it will be his successor's responsibility to pick up the pieces. The Core Curriculum remains a flawed innovation, one that often seems a roadblock to the intellectual broadening and deepening that it professes to achieve. The Faculty Council, the closed executive committee of the Faculty which Rosovsky chairs, has often seemed grossly insensitive to the legitimate concerns of racial minorities, women, and gay students--its rejection of a policy of nondiscrimination for gays being an obvious example. Rosovsky has also done much to perpetuate the flaws in Harvard's tenure process...
...with Rosovsky's shortcomings that the search for a successor should start. President Bok should actively seek the advice of undergraduates--not just Undergraduate Council leaders, but other students as well--who can fill Bok in on their curricular and other grievances. He should meet, too, with minority, women and gay students, and others that have voted dissatisfaction with the responsiveness of the Faculty to their concerns. And he should very carefully listen to junior professors, for the policies of Rosovsky's successor could well determine whether these young scholars will become Harvard's future or Harvard's shame...
...type of pen wielded by a forger can be a giveaway. The quaint quill was used exclusively until 1780, when its successor, the steel pen, came into existence. The difference in writing between the two can be seen under a microscope. Fiber-tipped pens were not used extensively in the U.S. until 1964. Any forger using a pen not common in the period his document purports to derive from risks quick discovery. The modern proliferation of pens, particularly ballpoints, complicates the task of current document analysts, but can provide fresh clues. A ballpoint requires the writer to exert more pressure...
Harper's Foundation President Rick MacArthur nonetheless praised Kinsley and said the board was paying his tenure the utmost compliment. "As his successor," said MacArthur, "we want another independent, unconventional thinker...