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Putnam's unusually short term makes it difficult to judge what impact, if any, he has had on the Kennedy School, but faculty members say that he was able to nudge the school in a new direction and accomplish many of his objectives...
Although he joined the council last school year in part to debate, Gallagher also felt that, despite the Administration often only paying it lip service, "there was a lot student government could accomplish." Although he may have seemed, as Harmon, a former UC representative says, someone who "has no other real agenda besides getting in The Crimson," "Gallagher points proudly to several concrete accomplishments in his time on the UC. Fellow Mather residents said they were satisfied with his work on the Council. He acted as a student representative to the Faculty's Core Curriculum committee and on that body...
...first dean in well over 30 years who began with a real knowledge of education," Bok says. "What you have at the end of her tenure is a school with a very clear direction and a whole set of programs that had been put in place to accomplish that agenda, and with a much strengthened faculty to help implement those programs...
Though the situation may seem to verge on farce (Suppose De Klerk gave a peace conference, and nobody came?), it is deadly serious. Continued negotiations would be unlikely to accomplish much anyway until after early July, when the A.N.C. holds its first congress inside South Africa in 30 years and De Klerk finds out whom he will be dealing with next. (Mandela is virtually certain to be re-elected, but other aging leaders who have operated for decades in exile may be replaced by younger blacks who have grown up in the segregated townships.) Nonetheless, Archbishop Tutu warned last week...
...powerful manner that compels them to stop, stare and even question. The cartoon's potential to alter viewpoints and influence action is what I aspire to unlock. Special cartoons transcend the limitations of their topic and medium when they touch the chords of human feeling and morality. To accomplish this, they must originate from the gut of their maker...