"Our interests are opposed a little
bit here," said Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul Grogan.
Stone and Gray refused to reveal even the most general information about the search committee's meeting schedule.
"We've met I don't know how many times--there've been quite a few--and we'll be meeting quite a few times in the future," Stone said. "We don't have any set schedule--we meet periodically in different places, and you can't track us down every place."
Even when she told reporters that the committee had removed two deceased nominees from the list, Gray would go no further.
"I can't talk about them," she joked.
--Staff writer Joshua E. Gewolb can be reached at gewolb@fas.harvard.edu. Staff writer Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan can be reached at vganesh@fas.harvard.edu.