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...August, the news goes on vacation like everybody else," says New York magazine media critic Michael Wolff. "Washington especially, which accounts for most official news and probably half of all national news, is possibly the hottest place on earth in the summer, and anyone who is capable of making official news is certainly somewhere else. The media still work, but resentfully, and with lots of people...
...It’s a thankless task,” says Mason Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff...
...allows himself to cut corners when he is sure about something,” Wolff says. “He twice added significantly to the undergraduate financial aid budget. The decision about the first nearly $10 million increase was made, atypically for Knowles, within very few days...
...Knowles’ first step was to install Wolff, who says the department was “dysfunctional,” as Acting Chair in 1992. But Pearson professor of modern mathematics and mathematical logic Warren Goldfarb ’69 says that the department’s dire condition and FAS’ still-burgeoning budget deficit led Knowles to question Linguistics’ place in Harvard’s liberal arts curriculum...
...Knowles now says that the committee did have the option to recommend that Linguistics maintain its departmental status. But at the time, Wolff told The Crimson “It is not the function of the committee to look into departmental reorganization… We have tried that.” Knowles says he also sent a sternly worded letter to committee members, including both of the department’s professors, advising them of the gravity of the situation...