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Woods, who was a fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation in 1979, is currently one of five candidates nominated by HRAAA for election to the 30-member Board of Overseers. Results of the vote are scheduled to be announced this Thursday...
UNTIL last week, Derek Bok and I had little in common. He set University policy. I whined about it. He had a neat spread all to himself in Massachusetts Hall. I shared a room in Leverett House with five guys renowned for their "trash art." He was quoted widely in the New York Times. I was just lucky to get my New York Times...
Consequently MacFarquhar predicts a major crisis of leadership and of succession within five years. He says Deng had to use up virtually all of his political capital to maintain control during the crisis, and that no one of Deng's stature is waiting in the wings to take a firm hold of the government after he dies...
...Harvard a stronger and wealthier institution than when he came to it. Bok restored stability to a campus ripped apart by the '60s, overseeing unprecedented expansion of facilities and programs such as the creation of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 20 years, Bok increased the endowment five-fold to about $5 billion--the highest by far of any institution of higher education in the world...
...lines have been tied in postmodern knots, Tiffany's plummy palate, iridescent surfaces and flowing shapes are attracting record museum throngs and stratospheric auction prices. "Masterworks" was the most popular exhibit ever at the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery in Washington; some 225,000 people visited it during its five-month stay. At Christie's a pond- lily glass table lamp brought $550,000, a record auction price for a Tiffany work...