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...just weeks after news broke that Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby had been forced from his post, Kirby’s name had all but disappeared from the front page of this paper, as tensions between the Faculty and President Lawrence H. Summers violently resurfaced, culminating with Summers??€™ resignation. Kirby once again was lost in the fracas, upstaged by a crisis of leadership more profound than his own imminent departure...
...only fitting. Kirby has always been eclipsed by Summers, his tenure as dean judged in light of his relationship with the president, his ability to lead compromised by Summers??€™ heavy hand. The mild-mannered Kirby, who has always been more likely to speak in Chinese proverbs than in arrogant absolutes, has not been a lightning rod for Faculty criticism, but he has been the subject of much grumbling, often accused of inefficacy, and blamed—perhaps rightly so—for FAS stumblings...
Last January, I was slated to write one final piece on Kirby reflecting on developments during the last two years. Our interview was January 20, 2005, three days after word of Summers??€™ incendiary speech at the NBER conference hit the presses. Already, the school was abuzz, but for the first time in months, Kirby showed signs of his former candor and capacity for reflection...
...provide meaningful leadership to FAS, but it is more likely—for better or worse—that he will once again be viewed only in the context of Summers. In the end, this could be a case of ironic justice: the legacy of the man always in Summers??€™ shadow will be defined by his own ouster, the final nail in Summers??€™ coffin...
...worst things about University President Lawrence H. Summers??€™ resignation is the message that it seems to signal to Harvard’s students, both past and present. Summers stood for many things, but most importantly he represented the interests of our students...