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...When Joe Wyatt left Harvard to become the chancellor at Vanderbilt [in Nashville, Tenn.], I called Colin to see if he would be interested in becoming vice president for adminis- tration," O'Brien said. "He decided that he wished not to be considered for the position...
When Clinton became President, Holbrooke sought appointment as ambassador to Japan but had to settle for Germany. In a characteristically blatant concentration on the center of power, Holbrooke cultivated relations with Chancellor Helmut Kohl's top foreign policy expert Joachim Bitterlich, and all but ignored Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, to the irritation of the German foreign office. In October he returned to Foggy Bottom as the top European policymaker...
...group was organized in 1991 by Chancellor Sherry Penney of U-Mass Boston and Zelda Gamson, director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education. Penney is currently the acting president of the U-Mass system...
Major loyalists trooped before the TV cameras to commend the Prime Minister's bold initiative. Said Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke: "I entirely support the Prime Minister's sensible decision to bring forward the date of the leadership election. He has my total support." Foreign Secretary and party heavyweight Douglas Hurd, who chose last week to announce his retirement from the Cabinet, also endorsed Major...
...toughness on maintaining British sovereignty in the European Union, precipitated the Prime Minister's pre-emptive strike and will not be easily silenced. The Euro-skeptics will almost certainly field a leadership candidate on the first ballot. Already the names of Barry Field, a political unknown, and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont, who became the scapegoat for sterling's being ignominiously suspended from the European exchange-rate mechanism in September 1992, are being mentioned as possibilities. They stand little chance, but could serve as a stalking-horse for a more viable candidate, such as Heseltine or Portillo...