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...past, Harvard search committees have asked for only a little, if any, administrative experience from those it appointed president. While never an easy task, running Harvard then was much simpler than it is now. Anyone with leadership ability, a respectable scholarly background, a good family and a wide array of contacts was seen as qualified...
...place of materialism, many Americans are embracing simpler pleasures and homier values. They've been thinking hard about what really matters in their lives, and they've decided to make some changes. What matters is having time for family and friends, rest and recreation, good deeds and spirituality. For some people that means a radical step: changing one's career, living on less, or packing up and moving to a quieter place. For others it can mean something as subtle as choosing a cheaper brand of running shoes or leaving work a little earlier to watch the kids...
...pursuit of a simpler life with deeper meaning is a major shift in America's private agenda. "This is a rapid and extremely powerful movement," says Ross Goldstein, a San Francisco psychologist and market researcher. "I'm impressed by how deep it goes into the fabric of this country." Says noted theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "We are all warned against thinking in terms of trends that correspond with decades, but this one is a cinch. I think that people are going to look back at today as a hinge period in the country's history." Some...
During this high-stress midterm period, many Harvard students dream of simpler times when homework could be done before dinner and tests covered a week's worth of material. There's no going back to the carefree days of youth, but for a few dollars, director John Weinstein's production of Grease can make you forget that exam...
...thing, which is that because of misinformation and misperceptions, there are misjudgments as to where a nation's interests lie and what can be accomplished. Take the missile crisis, for example. In what was a very simple situation, short in time -- two weeks -- simple in relations among states, much simpler than the gulf or much simpler than Vietnam -- you cannot imagine the extent of misjudgment, misinformation. Events were really out of the control of either party, though both the Russians and we were trying to maintain control...