The educational eminence known as Harvard last chose a new president 18 years ago. Then, it selected a little-known ancient history scholar who was president of Wisconsin's tiny Lawrence College, Nathan Marsh Pusey. Pusey will leave Harvard in June to head the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and this week the university's dual boards of seven corporation members and 29 overseers meet to end eleven months of speculation over his successor. On the eve of the announcement, all signs pointed to another complex man without national prominence: Derek Curtis Bok, 40, dean of the Harvard...
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