Can Alan Garber Save Harvard?

The email landed at 10 minutes to midnight on a Friday in early April-a more menacing email than Alan Garber had imagined. The Harvard president had been warned that something was coming. His university had drawn the unwanted and sustained attention of the White House, and he’d spent weeks scrambling to stave off whatever blow was coming, calling his institution’s influential alumni and highly paid fixers to arrange a meeting with someone-anyone-in the administration.