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...failed to learn the true lesson of Winthrop's oft-quoted phrase. In trying to be a beacon for information technology (IT), it drew the constant ire of Harvard's nine deans who were accustomed to the "every tub on its own bottom" theory of management...
...know them warts and all," Birmingham says. In his tenure on Beacon Hill he has occasionally run into conflicts with the state teachers' union...
What began as an innocent evening at home on Jan. 23 turned sour when, after visiting his parent's residence on Beacon Street in Boston, Gardiner--son of William T. Gardiner '14, an ex-governor of Maine--failed to return to his room...
...Museveni delights in his new friendship with America, which long shunned him. "For the first time, Americans are working with African patriots," he says. "Before, the U.S. called us leftists. What did it mean? We were just fighting for independence." With Nelson Mandela's South Africa as an additional beacon, Museveni's highlands sphere is creating a new sense of possibility from the Nile to the Cape. The new leaders might yet evolve into oppressive Big Men themselves. But for now, a part of the world that once was known as the Dark Continent is hoping to find itself...
...didn't follow the normal path that people do when they get to Beacon Hill," Lynch says. "They aren't independent thinkers like...