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Thomas Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was also a final contender. Cech withdrew his name from consideration during the committee's final days of deliberation, leaving the two female leaders as finalists.

The selection committee took a decidedly different approach to the presidency this time around, forgoing celebrity standing for academic experience. "A celebrity won't make Harvard," says Gomes. "Harvard will make someone a celebrity." Overnight, it seems, Faust could leap to stardom.

Where Japanese Women Rule

Time magazine

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007

Michiko Toyama / Tokyo

The door to the Swallowtail opens and there stands Saionji, good man that he is, as skilled a butler who ever buttled. He takes our coats and bags and shimmers away, leading us down the corridor past gilded mirrors, Monet prints and bursting bouquets to our table in the Swallowtail's elegant tearoom. As I move to sit at our table, a second butler, named Mikami, materializes to ease me into my chair. "Good day, princess," he says to my dining companion--and not, I assume, to me. I order the Earl Grey tea and the Macbeth--a petite娇小 — small, in French ham-and-cheese panini, the preferred snack of bloody-minded Scottish tyrants. Mikami leaves to prepare the tea but not before showing us a golden bell we can use to summon him. We hunger. We ring. He runs. Six seconds. Jeeves would be proud.