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...spark a thorough and productive discussion about Harvard's future, the search committee should release this list to the Harvard community. It is only appropriate that candidates for the Harvard presidency should be subject to public scrutiny before the decision is made. A clear, open conversation between students, faculty, staff and administrators would ensure that the next president represents an inclusive, University-wide perspective. Harvard's 27th president should be able to legitimately claim a broad base of campus support rather than the sponsorship of the Harvard Corporation and Overseers alone. The campus should embrace Neil L. Rudenstine's successor...
...most difficult part of his work is dealing with amateurs who make earnest but misguided proposals. His job is to provide thorough and rigorous evaluation of proposed research projects, even if that feedback is negative...
...sleeping voters lie. The Democrats learned first-hand in Florida that turnout isn't everything. Thorough "get out the vote" drives produced record turnout thanks to first time voters, many of whom found themselves either fallen through the system's large cracks or somehow bewildered by the instructions that told them to punch through the cardboard and pick out the chad so the machine can read their vote...
Though there is always room for criticism, I believe our current endorsement process is the fairest, most thorough and most faithful to the scholarships that Harvard has ever used. We no longer eliminate candidates from the bottom, but try to identify those who are very strong in order to endorse them. As it does throughout the competition (and exams and term papers), the burden falls on candidates to make the best possible case for themselves. In its final phase, our committee does consider supporting materials from the Houses, but decisions fall on the basis of what candidates themselves have chosen...
...instant, a supplicant trying to win in court what he didn't win at the ballot box. And every day the media persist in calling the race anew. A reporter will read the latest polls showing that a majority of the American people don't mind waiting for a thorough recount and then open the next segment with the question "When, in the name of the American people, will this madness...