Harvard's Historic Choice

Praised for her leadership of a small institute, new chief must prove she can tame a bigger beast

In the stratified world of higher education's most elite institutions, where professional jealousies abound, Drew Gilpin Faust appears to have achieved the seemingly impossible. She is a career academic who has risen to the top job at Harvard University while apparently making no enemies along the way.

"I truly have known her for 20 years, and I have yet to meet anyone who dislikes

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