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...Senate approves the nomination, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom will serve a six-year term on the 26-member council, which reviews the grants and policies of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This year, the endowment plans to give away around $105 million to projects on language, literature, history, philosophy and the arts...
...Thernstrom said the council contacted him a year ago and asked whether he would be interested in a position...
After Bush officially nominated him about six months ago, Thernstrom said he had to spend “untold time” completing paperwork for an FBI background check. Now he waits for the Senate to ratify the nomination, which might take days or weeks...
...Thernstrom said members of the council focus on policy and not “hands-on management,” but he said the specifics of his role have not been spelled...
...have played in the federal government. “Harvard is normally the name that comes up when people talk about famous American universities, but so much of that was the accident of John F. Kennedy and the romance of the press with the Harvard crowd,” Thernstrom says. Henry Kissinger, former Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy and Galbraith are only a few of many former Faculty members who served in the Kennedy administration and in presidential administrations since...