There’s an old story about a Harvard professor who gets a call from the president (of the United States) and responds that his president is the president of Harvard.

Being a professor at Harvard is like that. Academics in Cambridge are a big deal; Harvard is an amazing place; and if you’re lucky enough to make it there, you generally never leave. Why would you?

I left for the University of Southern California 20 years ago. It was not an obvious move at the time, unless you were a football coach. But I was pregnant with my daughter, and short of delivering at O’Hare, it ...

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