Word: 27th
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Clark is now the darling of arguably the nation's best business school. And he's made one of the most exclusive lists in America--those who could be the 27th president of Harvard...
...coming, and we are braced for it," says Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood. Other sources say the action, which pro-life groups have been urging ever since President Clinton suspended the practice early in his first term, could come as soon next week. Monday is the 27th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. A Bush press spokeswoman said Friday that the incoming administration will have no comment on future executive orders...
...Harvard community. It is only appropriate that candidates for the Harvard presidency should be subject to public scrutiny before the decision is made. A clear, open conversation between students, faculty, staff and administrators would ensure that the next president represents an inclusive, University-wide perspective. Harvard's 27th president should be able to legitimately claim a broad base of campus support rather than the sponsorship of the Harvard Corporation and Overseers alone. The campus should embrace Neil L. Rudenstine's successor rather than consider the new president an imposition by the search committee...
...reason is a longstanding infatuation that has recently overtaken my waking hours. Just as Orpheus' lyre drew the beasts and the rocks to him, so have the plangent cries of the pedal steel guitar attracted a hundred-odd aficionados of the instrument to this the 27th annual convention of the Pedal Steel Guitar Association. There will be performances by steelers from all over the country and Canada, a seminar (my main reason for coming) and a jam session featuring three of the leading exponents of the instrument. There will also be hardware, strings, instructional materials, hard-to-find...
...finance reform is the only real solution, I'm looking forward to the race in 2002, when the district will have been safely redrawn, the national money spigot directed on other places and Monica's dress stashed safely at the bottom of a drawer. Then, the voters in the 27th district will no longer be pawns in the continued controversy over impeachment and will have to share less of their political voice with the likes of Verizon and Dreamworks...