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...years ago, Cambridge was the site of a City Council race that, while often bitter, was hardly revolutionary...
Regardless of which specific measures are considered or passed by the council, the ROTC debate is likely to become an issue in the campaign for council seats and for chair, much as the question of the nine all-male final clubs did a year ago...
...Stewart, a highly respected scholar, found Congress a little more friendly. His Justice Department nomination sailed through the Senate two weeks ago, with politicos on both sides supporting his "middle-of-the-road," free-market approach to environmental regulation...
...Pree, who retired two years ago as Herman Miller's chief executive officer, is hardly a soft touch. At performance reviews, he regularly grilled top managers on such soul-searing topics as "Who are you?," "What have you abandoned?" and "What should grace enable us to be?" In a similar vein, De Pree provides a list of telltale signs that a company is in trouble. Among them: a proliferation of manuals, the disappearance of "tribal stories" that preserve a firm's traditions, and a "dark tension among key people...
...article has become a hot topic, partly because Fukuyama is deputy director of the State Department's in-house think tank, the policy-planning staff. His article is being studied for possible insights into the cerebral underpinnings of the Bush Administration. Forty-three years ago, the founding director of the policy-planning staff, George Kennan, wrote an article in another erudite quarterly, Foreign Affairs, on the need for the West to pursue a policy of "containment" against Soviet Communism. President Bush has spoken of moving "beyond containment." Fukuyama has gone his boss one better, proclaiming that we may be witnessing...