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Officials at Harvard University faced a divided campus along with fear that a search for a new president could put in limbo ambitious plans for an expansive new campus in Boston, an overhaul of undergraduate studies and a fund-raising campaign for $5 billion or more. The idea that Harvard had arrived at some indeterminate crossroads was reinforced by the fact that the university's governing corporation had turned to a soothing elder former Harvard President Derek C. Bok, who served from 1971 to 1991 to take over on July 1 on an interim basis. Harvard announced plans last week for a 500,000-square-foot science complex and a temporary museum space in Boston, across the Charles River from the Cambridge, Mass., campus.