The really tough job is, I think, being president of Harvard. As I understand it, the Harvard president has radically less power vis a vis deans and faculties of the various units than presidents at other universities, including Chicago. The norm is a business-like CEO model, while Harvard seems to have a weak-medieval-king model. Also, for all that Harvard owns, it doesn’t actually own or control a bunch of stuff that other universities (and their presidents) do, like the hospitals associated with its medical school, or the buildings housing student organizations. To all that, add various faculties that are almost certainly, person for person, the most entitled prima donnas in the world (certainly including dozens of people who think they were more qualified than you for your job), alumni who are if anything more entitled and full of themselves than the faculties, and press who want you to be the pope of higher education. And outside your office, a mob of angry Asians with 1600 SATs, 36 ACTs, 4.3 unweighted GPAs, 10 APs (all 5s), torches, pitchforks, and Justice Department lawyers . . .