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First in an occasional series. Today: Harold E. Varmus. Wednesday: Lawrence H. Summers
...conduct their business in perfect secrecy, and the presidential search committee is not one of them. Some candidates on the list, such as Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and Business School Dean Kim B. Clark '74, have long been heralded as frontrunners in the search. Others, such as Harold Varmus and Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, have more recently received front-page attention. As the search progresses, more names will surface. But it is hardly fair that most candidates on the list have not been mentioned at all in the media. An open, deliberative process would be far preferable...
...Harold Varmus, the former National Institute of Health director and currently the CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who got a masters degree at Harvard...
Others suggest that the Harvard presidency's virtually unrivaled bully pulpit could pull Sullivan, Varmus and other candidates away from previous engagements...
Nobel Laureate Harold E. Varmus--who did graduate work in English at Harvard--has also been mentioned frequently. Formerly the director of the National Institutes of Health, Varmus moved to head the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York at the beginning of this year, prompting some to suggest that he also cannot switch jobs again so quickly...