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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., the powerful head of the Afro-American Studies Department--and a self-described former "flavor of the month" for the presidency himself--says that Rice would have been "brilliant" as the 27th president of Harvard...
...Rice had been mentioned as a possible candidate for the post, albeit a long shot--she has no Harvard affiliation...
Phillip D. Zelikow, a former professor at the Kennedy School of Government who is close with Rice, said that for a top Stanford administrator, the Harvard presidency is a hard sell because Harvard is so decentralized...
...Rice already has a glittering resume: she graduated from the University of Denver at 19, became an assistant professor at Stanford at 26 and joined the White House of George H.W. Bush at 32 as senior director for Soviet affairs for the National Security Council...
...Rice's colleagues from Stanford have only good things to say about the former provost...