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...stepping down after 20 years at the helm. “Twenty years seems like a natural time to leave. Also, both symbolically and practically, it worked to have Bok, who appointed me initially, come back and appoint my successor,” said Thompson, who is also the Whitehead professor of political philosophy. The Safra Center is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of how people resolve the ethical conflicts faced in public and professional life, according to the center’s Web site. A 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School, Schauer has been teaching at Harvard since...
Twenty years after then President Derek Bok hired him as the first director of the University’s Center for Ethics, Dennis Thompson is resigning from the post, partly so that now interim president Bok can name his replacement. Thompson, also the Whitehead professor of political philosophy, will step down at the end of the academic year. Bok will personally oversee the search for a replacement. “Part of the reason [for stepping down] is that this year the Center is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and I thought it would be an appropriate time to step down...
Masters does, however, provide a variety of angles to assist them, first allowing Spitzer to define himself—he says his model is Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1876—and then letting others have a try. Former Goldman Sachs chief John C. Whitehead ’68 calls Spitzer “scary,” for example, after allegedly being threatened...
...under 40). At 39, Jhumpa Lahiri already has a powerful novel (The Namesake) and a Pulitzer-winning story collection. Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close) has got a lot of attention both popular and critical, and he's only 29. A somewhat partisan sampling would also include Colson Whitehead (The Intuitionist), 36; Edwidge Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory), 37; Dave Eggers (You Shall Know Our Velocity), 36; Arthur Phillips (Prague), 37; Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep), 30; Myla Goldberg (Bee Season), 34; Nicole Krauss (The History of Love), 31; and Gary Shteyngart (Absurdistan), 33. If we open our borders to the Brits...
...submit a draft of its new Institutional Master Plan to the City of Boston within the calendar year, outlining its intentions for the next half century.“President Summers’ departure should not disrupt the process in any significant way,” writes Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis Thompson, who chaired the 1997 University Physical Planning Committee and later the Allston Life Task Force, in an e-mail. “The basic goals are set, and the planning has a momentum of its own now.”But though the outgoing president...