Word: wiseness
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...each other regularly.” The pair has not set a date for the wedding. According to Scarry, the couple is “going to put off the marriage until we can set up house together.” Lilly says that she thought it would be wise to stay in Boston as she and Scarry “want to live on the East Coast later, and people tend to stay around where they go to medical school.” —Staff writer Rachel Nolan can be reached at rnolan@fas.harvard.edu...
...Fortunately, as with the guidance of science, a wise person who recognizes and values deep and innovative thinking can make fair decisions in all aspects of the University. Given Harvard’s visibility, Faust’s ability to implement visionary reforms will benefit not only students and faculty in the Harvard community, but will also seed positive change in the world at large...
...future only to be ousted by a Faculty averse to change and offended by his brusque management style. For the past year, interim President Derek C. Bok has smoothed over choppy waters, building a foundation on which it will be possible to reengage an ambitious agenda. Faust would be wise to do so and not shy away from badly-needed reform for fear of offending her many constituencies.Perhaps Faust’s biggest challenge will be bringing the University together into a unified whole. Harvard has long operated under a decentralized system, with each faculty and school retaining broad autonomy...
...exit and the return of two of Harvard’s old wise men should have been a respite from all the hurrying. But Derek C. Bok and Jeremy R. Knowles, the interim leaders of the University and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, did not slow down...
...sidelines as befits a newspaper reporter. And I watched in the years that followed, when the hero of that movement, Nelson Mandela, in fact turned out to be one of the few great giants of the twentieth century. (It’s still embarrassing to remember that the wise men of the College, President Derek C. Bok chief among them, placed their bets instead on the avaricious tribal leader Mangosothu Buthelezi.) When Mandela was finally freed, one of his first trips abroad was to visit the American universities to thank those who had worked for divestiture...