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...leading candidate for the open seat is said to be Deborah C. Wright ’79, president and chief executive officer of Carver Bancorp, the $595 million banking company in New York. She joined the Board of Overseers, Harvard’s larger and far less powerful advisory group, in 2001 and is now one of four African Americans on the 30-member board...
...Wright would be just the second woman on the Corporation, alongside Nannerl O. Keohane, who joined at the beginning of last month, replacing Hanna H. Gray, the former president of the University of Chicago. A larger female presence on the board could help University President Lawrence H. Summers, who is himself a member of the Corporation, deflect criticism of his commitment to the advancement of women at Harvard...
...Wright declined to comment through an assistant, referring all questions to the University. A Harvard spokesman would not discuss the search...
...LIZZ WRIGHT...
This signature Neil Young hit has turned bathetic with age, but Wright, a relatively unknown jazz singer, rescues it with a dry, smoky and spooky rendition...