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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Silber's decision, which hinged on Gov. A. Paul Cellucci's decision to appoint Peyser, will clear the path for Acting Education Commissioner David P. Driscoll to be approved by the board for a permanent position...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: State Ed. Chair Steps Down | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

While the board had been trying to appoint a permanent educational commissioner since Robert Antonucci's resignation last February, it had struggled with political divisions...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: State Ed. Chair Steps Down | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) passed a bill urging recently elected Democratic Governor Gray Davis to appoint pro-affirmative action regents to the Board of Regents. While this action alone would not reverse the ban on affirmative action, Amanda R. Canning, academic vice-president of the ASUC said, "I think that it is time that the regents experience some diversity themselves, not just ethnic diversity, but diversity of thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Balance the Board | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

Back when a certain intern was still a junior at Lewis and Clark College, the Whitewater scandal broke. Attorney General JANET RENO was authorized to appoint a special counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 11, 1999 | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...factly instructs Moses: "Ascend these heights of Abarim...and view the land of Canaan which I am giving the Israelites as their holding." When Moses has seen the Promised Land, God says, he will perish. Moses immediately acquiesces: "Let the Lord, source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone [else] over the community." His later recollection in Deuteronomy, however, is "I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying...'Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan, that good hill country, and the Lebanon.' But the Lord...said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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