Silence.
"Are you interested?"
"Let me put it this way," he says. "Anyone interested in making an impact on and through higher education would be interested in the Harvard presidency."
"Now, if I applied transitive logic--you strike me as just such a person. Would you characterize yourself as such a person?"
He laughs and hesitates.
"I think I'd like to stick with what I said."
Fineberg is, for the most part, well respected within the Harvard administration. He is credited with focusing on information technology and using the interfaculty initiatives to draw the schools together. Both Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser and Vice President for Finance Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper say Fineberg has created his own niche.
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