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...upsetting about this week’s swirl of controversy is that concrete proposals for improving the quality of life of Harvard’s freshmen are being pushed out of the discussion. Instead of swallowing its collective pride and beginning the work of shaping its successor, the Prefect Program’s board seems intent on throwing a tantrum about what it feels was an inadequate amount of consultation. That’s a real shame, since huge improvements to freshman advising aren’t just attainable, they would be remarkably simple to put into place...
...University’s associate vice president for sponsored programs, in which she has helped oversee regulations for funding research endeavors such as the Broad Institute, the genomics collaboration between Harvard and MIT. Mora will return to her old job once Harvard finishes its search for a long-term successor to Berman. Berman announced in September that she would step down from her position as finance VP at the end of this March to spend half of the year living in Italy and half back at Harvard in an advisory role. Like Mora, Berman, who began as acting finance...
...support of the Faculty for projects such as bringing to a conclusion and implementing the Harvard College Curricular Review and forging ahead with the Allston Expansion which will define the Harvard experience for decades. Without full and honest disclosure from the Faculty of why this presidency was unsuitable, his successor may well founder on the same rocks Summers...
...with faculty in the professional schools during his tenure. And the president said he had sensed “great support” for his goals among Harvard alumni, though he conceded that his perception might have been inaccurate. Summers hesitated when one mother sought his advice to his successor. “This is like one occasion after another to put my foot in it,” Summers said, drawing laughter. “These are open invitations to confirm stereotypes.” But he went on to outline some of the objectives he has pursued during...
...With the fight against Communism now replaced by the War on Terror, John Paul's successor faces a wholly new, more explosive political challenge. Not only does Pope Benedict XVI not have first-hand experience "behind the lines" in a Muslim society, like John Paul's background in Krakow, but the reach of his words may be inherently limited. Rather than facing a godless society's attack on the freedom to believe, Islamic terrorism presents a warped interpretation of a competing faith...