About Me

My photo
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Admire John McPhee, Bill Bryson, David Remnick, Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr and James Martin (and most open and curious minds)

10.2.07

FAIR HARVARD

Everyone fronts the selection of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust as the first female president of Harvard. All the papers say her style will be more collegial, or "soothing"—a contrast to Larry Summers—but the NYT equivocates over whether her sex was central to the Selection Committee's choice. (Or was it her gender that mattered?) TP wonders if saying she's "soothing" is anything like calling her "clean" or "articulate."

No comments: