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...next president should also address concerns about education and act both as a peer and leader to faculty—a “primus inter pares,” as Interim University President Derek C. Bok said. In order to maintain Harvard’s academic reputation, the new president must remain committed to undergraduates. Students come here to learn from the leaders in their fields, not to be the secondary concerns of preoccupied professors. It is important to continue work on teaching initiatives within the curricular review, but the new president should go further and introduce tenure...
Richard A. Primus ’92, assistant professor at University of Michigan’s Law School, said that he met Kaplan in Perry’s “terrific gov class...
...Joel was a year ahead of me. He was ’91 and a gov jock, and I was ’92 and a soc stud,” said Primus. “I remember one night in Lamont, I looked over and Joel was there. It seemed that Joel had been there for four days, and would be there for four days more if necessary—he’s someone to be reckoned with...
...Primus added that while he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth B. Ginsberg, Kaplan clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia...
...Pompeii (Random House; 278 pages), Robert Harris, author of the thrillers Fatherland and Archangel, makes the most of it. He takes us into the life of the city by way of Marcus Attilius Primus, a young, pure-hearted engineer who specializes in building and maintaining aqueducts. Aqueducts were a big deal in A.D. 79, both the backbone of and a metaphor for the glory that was ancient Rome. One night Pompeii's aqueduct starts belching sulphurous fumes, then dries up altogether. Attilius sets out to find the problem...