Word: appoints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HOLBROOKE to be Secretary of State, both men took the disappointment graciously and then devoted themselves to thorny problems--Mitchell in Northern Ireland, Holbrooke in Bosnia, Kosovo and Cyprus. Now, with U.N. Ambassador BILL RICHARDSON expected to move to the Energy Department, friends of Holbrooke are lobbying Clinton to appoint him to the post. Clinton admires Holbrooke's negotiating skills and his ability to "rattle the china," as a top White House official put it. Also, Holbrooke is close to AL GORE. But Mitchell is also being mentioned, though officials are not sure he wants the job. "If he wants...
...very, very, very much want to appoint one woman and one person of color...," Lewis told students at the meeting. "I'd be very happy to have you think double or triple hard about these categories, as we have already...
Katherine A. Hamm '99, who also co-chairs the Lowell House committee, similarly acknowledged that not everyone might be happy with the decision to appoint a same-sex couple as Masters...
WASHINGTON: Poor Alexis Herman. Thanks to jittery attorneys in the Justice Department?s Public Integrity office, the labor secretary becomes the fifth Clinton cabinet member to go under an independent counsel?s microscope. The publicity-wary DOJ lawyers advised Janet Reno to appoint an investigator, and the attorney general agreed -- despite admitting there was ?no evidence clearly demonstrating Secretary Herman?s involvement? in a cash-for-influence scam. Now it?s up to a three-judge court of appeals panel to name the lucky prosecutor...
...would like to sincerely thank you for publishing the offensive and hateful letter by John L. Adams '50 which decried Harvard's decision to appoint a lesbian couple as masters in Lowell House. It is important for everyone to be reminded that extreme homophobia and intolerance are still out there, even among the "educated," and that the battle for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered rights is a battle for basic human decency. To Mr. Adams, I can only hope that your gay children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews can survive the atmosphere of hatred you are perpetuating without taking their...