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...opinion between Ahmadinejad and Khamenei about how to proceed on nuclear negotiations with the West. Let's say Ahmadinejad doesn't want to negotiate. Let's say he wants to send a message to the West, to the Israelis and also to Khamenei: I'm not a powerless figurehead like my predecessor, Mohammed Khatami. My friends in the Revolutionary Guards give me veto power over any deal. It would not be difficult for Ahmadinejad to send the message, via the Guards, to both Hizballah and the military wing of Hamas, which is based in Damascus and funded in part...
...constantly goes around his kingdom offering development projects to help his people. But what he really seems to have mastered is the art of remaining highly visible, yet at some level out of sight. His thoughts and longings are not chronicled in the daily papers; instead, he remains a figurehead who holds the country together in part by projecting an image of constancy, changeless even as he guides his nation through a series of dramatic, modernizing changes...
...much power does a Harvard president have? No one would call you a figurehead, but I wonder, what with the Corporation and Overseers looking over your shoulder and quietly or not so quietly steering the University’s agenda, to what extent do you as president have the power to guide and implement initiatives completely of your own choosing? LHS: Certainly whatever the president of Harvard says or does is noticed pretty widely. I think we’ve been able to do some very important things these last years by eliminating family contributions by any family with income...
...controversy, it is the curricular review that has been three-plus years in the making and has yielded generally reasonable, if not laudable, proposals. If members of the College community can come together and focus their efforts on the curricular review, as Kirby has suggested, it will need no figurehead. The future of the College lies in the execution of this agenda, and that execution must begin...
...permanent dean or president—that the departure of two men could leave the process so crippled—has little basis in reality. If members of the College community can come together and focus their efforts on the curricular review, as Kirby suggests, it will need no figurehead. Although the impulse to wait for a new dean before completing the curricular review—presumably in order to allow the new dean to somehow put his or her mark on the project—seems reasonable at first glance, we fail to see the impact such...