Harvard president gone – for the right reasons

Few windows into today's higher education leadership were as shocking as the testimony of three distinguished university presidents (from Harvard, Penn and MIT) before the star chamber hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce last month. In their obtuse, overly lawyered statements on anti-Semitism on their respective campuses, they wrapped themselves in a …

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Tom Menino reborn – or so it seems

Mea culpa.  On December 4, this very blog expressed the sense that Boston Mayor Tom Menino should hang it up. Quit while he was ahead. Yield to diminished physical capacity and rest on his laurels.  Accept congratulations for all he has done for Boston and ride off, if not in the sunset, at least to …

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