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...different his mood on Friday, when he was surrounded by appointees whom he genuinely enjoys and who fit his vow of "a new generation of leaders." Harvard political economist Robert Reich, a Rhodes scholar with Clinton, will be Secretary of Labor. Health and Human Services went to Donna Shalala, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin and a friend of Hillary Clinton's. Another woman becomes chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a Berkeley economist. And Carol Browner, a former aide to Al Gore, will head the Environmental Protection Agency. Saturday was another day for allies...
...almost become evangelical when I tell my students, `Go on to graduate school. Consider becoming scholars and working at a university where you will teach, write, publish and have some impact on society'," said William E. Moore, vice chancellor for academic affairs at Southern University at Baton Rouge...
...Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters banned the Nationalist Front, a 130-member radical group with no apparent connection to Molln but a bent for terror, and set his sights on other right- wing extremists. Police raided 51 houses across the country in one day, uncovering caches of weapons and propaganda. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's denunciation of the murders, unlike many of his earlier comments on violence, ^ bore a note of genuine concern: "What has appeared here is an act of brutality that for every humane sensibility is incomprehensible...
When more than half the city's 32 local boards balked at introducing first- graders to the notion of same-sex couples, chancellor Joseph Fernandez agreed that they could hold off until the fifth or sixth grade. But the board of District 24, in the largely blue-collar borough of Queens, refused that offer. Board president Mary Cummins labeled portions of the guide "dangerously misleading homosexual/lesbian propaganda." Even after Fernandez softened the guidelines concerning homosexuality, District 24 board members refused to meet with him. Last week the exasperated chancellor suspended them. In their place he appointed trustees who will...
Clinton also named University of Wisconsin Chancellor Donna Shalala as secretary of Health and Human Services, Florida environmental official Carol Browner to head the Environmental protection Agency, and Berkeley economist Laura D' Andrea Tyson to chair the Council of Economic Advisers...