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Asked last week whether he would leave Duke to lead Harvard, President Richard H. Brodhead wrote in an e-mail, “What a foolish question. I already have a great job,” according to the Duke Chronicle...
...made a few more film appearances, the last one indelible: as Richard Dreyfuss' adviser from Heaven in Always. It was a visitation from the guardian angel of our finest instincts...
...biological oceanography and Pforzheimer House master. “We have a serious commitment in both communities to advance this agenda.” Eric Chivian, director of Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, spearheads the six-week-old coalition along with longtime friend Richard Cizik, a leader in the Washington-based National Association of Evangelicals. “We reviewed the science, about which there was no disagreement, that the natural world is imperiled by human behaviors and policies, especially by our unsustainable burning of fossil fuels and our degradation of living systems...
Meanwhile, Alison Richard runs Cambridge University. Shirley Tilghman runs Princeton. Amy Gutmann runs the University of Pennsylvania. Ruth Simmons runs Brown. All have been mentioned as possible contenders for the Harvard presidency. I make no comment on Hyman’s skills as provost, which are surely considerable. But must your headline stack the deck against the other candidates (all those listed above have greater experience being “#1” and not just “#2” than Steven Hyman) so quickly...
During the lifetimes of most Harvard undergraduates, Richard A. Musgrave—a founder of modern public sector economics—was in retirement.Musgrave, who died Monday at age 96, also came from an era preceding current economics faculty. But his ideas about the state’s role in the economy left a lasting impact felt by Harvard faculty and alums today.Having taught public finance at Harvard for about two decades, Musgrave had been an emeritus professor since 1981.“The training I received well after he had retired was different because he was around...