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...says his final club membership would not impede his ability to moderate a discussion on any resolutions concerning the clubs. "I don't think my membership in a club necessarily precludes my ability to be impartial in a meeting on the club issue," says Lee, adding he would temporarily cede the chair if he "had something burning to say." The chairman votes only to break...
...them ever found it necessary to fling tea in his face. That may be the ultimate reward. For after some 75 pictures, three Oscar nominations, innumerable charity works and goodwill tours, and a Medal of | Freedom from the President, the 71-year-old star is finally ready to cede the spotlight. As proof, he records a chance meeting with a beautiful admirer. "I suck in my gut, puff out my chest, slap a bicep. In a velvet voice, she says, 'Wow! Michael Douglas's father!' " Issur should live so long...
Indeed, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega suggested this last month when he said that the Sandinistas would never cede their political hegemony. As Robert Leiken, currently a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs has written, Ortega's "strategy is clear... he will delay lifting the state of emergency and granting broad amnesty and the other democratic reforms stipulated in the Guatemalan accords until the contras have been disbanded and defunded." Others have echoed Leiken's fears that the Sandinistas are cynically using the peace process to squash internal resistance to their regime...
...watershed event, the meeting at which Deng would consolidate the controversial economic and political reforms he began in 1979. Less than a year ago, sinologists speculated that the octogenarians who have run the country since the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976 would use the occasion to cede control to younger, reform-minded leaders. In the end Deng Xiaoping resigned from some powerful posts, but he will still remain in a key military position and will continue to be the final arbiter of Chinese political life...
...more important to Hesburgh have been the changes in Notre Dame's governance and its amalgam of scholars. In 1967 he persuaded the Congregation of Holy Cross, his order of priests and the founders of Notre Dame, to cede control of the institution to a lay board of trustees, though the school would remain Catholic and its president a priest of the order. This was a radical step in Catholic education, where virtue and even legitimacy are often judged by proximity to the church hierarchy. To Hesburgh, however, ecumenical leadership was essential to turning the university's vision outward toward...