Word: visioning
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...presidential search committee has the trying job of creating a new vision for Harvard. During their last search, the committee found Rhodes Scholar Rudenstine, the man who could deliver the personal touch and billions of dollars. This next president can--and should--virtually ignore issues of fundraising and instead focus on the role Harvard plays in the national and international communities...
...nominated solely because of her gender but rather because she has proven herself as an accomplished academic administrator. It would be terribly detrimental to both the University and to the ideals of feminism if an unqualified woman assumed the University presidency. But there are women with the leadership qualities, vision and administrative experience who can escort our University into the next century. It is not enough that the short list of presidential candidates includes a few token women and minorities--one of them should be offered the position...
Harvard has the responsibility to think outside of the box. Throughout the country and the international community, heads turn when our name is mentioned. The next University president, secure with the resources afforded by a near-$15 billion endowment, should carry the vision and emphasis on education into the national arena. The nature of the post is such that the efforts made by the president are as symbolic as the choice of the leader. Rudenstine made occasional ventures into the national spotlight, advocating affirmative action programs and funding for university research, but his heart, or at least his agenda...
...Turner, sought South America's purest practitioners of Incan and pre-Incan pantheism for its environmental panel, it turned to the Q'ero nation. The Q'ero, who live at an altitude of 15,000 ft. in several villages south of Cuzco, were amenable. They had had a prophetic vision about traveling to a far land to discuss the world's growing disharmony: pollution in the clouds that wreath their peaks, bizarrely early frost that threatens their potato crops and new parasites that weaken their alpacas. They relayed only a few requests. Would the summit help them get the birth...
Last week the U.N. issued a report that reflects the heart of Annan's new vision for peacekeeping. The idea is that the U.N. would call on ready battalions from armies around the world to step into emerging hot spots. These "surge" troops would be trained to work together and deploy quickly. Tactical units from Sweden, say, would be trained to work side by side with Pakistani logistics officers. Lego blocks for international order--but Legos with teeth. While the U.N. would hold to the rules that permit peacekeepers to fire only in self-defense, the definition of self-defense...