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Rudenstine is a humanist. The focus this time, however, will likely be on a different area. No one expects another English Renaissance scholar. Thus far, the pool of proposed candidates includes people with scientific, legal and business backgrounds--pragmatic fields for a pragmatic University...
...such possibility: Condoleezza Rice, formerly Stanford's provost and currently Texas Gov. George W. Bush's foreign policy adviser. One of a small pool of minority administrators in academia, she has taken a year off from Stanford to assist the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency. But she lacks one crucial factor: a Harvard connection...
...including my own) invite student participation through advisory committees. But such solicitation of student opinion is inconsistent at best, and severely unrepresentative at worst. When students were selected to sit on the board of the Ann Radcliffe Trust, they were hand-picked by administrators, not selected from an open pool. Students, however picked, must be incorporated when planning the long-term future of this community. Every student deserves five minutes of the administration's time, and Harvard would be better off for giving...
...Harvard rejection letter is four paragraphs long. There is the traditional line about an outstanding pool of applicants, as well as some hard-to-swallow words of wisdom. "The particular college a student attended is far less important than what the student does to develop his or her strengths and talents over the next four years." Anna found it annoying. "The rejection letter was just this Xerox copy," Anna recalls. "It seemed kind of cold...
...million price on his head. Flush with money from book and TV deals, he was starting a new life as a businessman far from his old Brooklyn haunts. He bought an eight-bedroom, 4,399-sq.-ft. home with stables, a three-car garage and a pool complete with waterfall, plus a separate apartment. He set up legitimate businesses: an Italian restaurant and a small pool-construction company with brand-new trucks and heavy equipment...