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Harvard's Fine Arts Department is a concentration with a lot of possibilities and not a little ambition: the faculty hopes to appoint as many as 11 scholars in the next three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rebuilding Fine Arts, One Scholar at a Time | 9/19/1991 | See Source »

...stifle the revolution in the provinces. The only thing that distinguishes the Perm regional soviet from Moscow's discredited national parliament, they joke, is that in Perm there are no electronic voting machines. Radical reformers, in fact, want Yeltsin to expand presidential control over regional executive bodies and appoint his own administrative representative in Perm to see that reforms are carried out. Contends local political columnist Vladimir Vinichenko: "We must use some authoritarian methods to ensure the victory of democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Bread, Cigarettes and Reform | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Rudenstine's colleagues say that he is close to making a final decision as to whether or not he will appoint a provost. For now, they say, he is continuing to gather reactions to the idea from members of the University community...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: Appointments to Make, Appointments to Keep | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

Rudenstine's colleagues say that he is close to making a final decision as to whether or not he will appoint a provost. For now, they say, he is continuing to gather reactions to the idea from members of the University community...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: Appointments to Make, Appointments to Keep | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

...some, Thomas' nomination looks cynical, a way for the Bush Administration to appoint a black whom civil rights groups and liberal Democrats would look churlish opposing while at the same time sticking to its efforts to pull back on civil rights programs. Jim Cicconi, a former senior official in the Administration who handled civil rights issues, explains the bind Thomas' critics are in: "It's going to be difficult for liberals on the Senate Judiciary Committee to go after Clarence Thomas for not being sufficiently sensitive to the interests of blacks and the disadvantaged, since he has been both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Marching to a Different Drummer | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

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