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Lashman was appointed chairman of the Regents in June 1986 by Governor Michael S. Dukakis. His appointment was the final chapter in the controversy over Chancellor of Higher Education James Collins, a former state representative, who had been appointed against the wishes of Dukakis. The governor removed Collins from office in 1986 and replaced Regent David Beaubien, the chairman during Collins' appointment, with Lashman...
Brecht's analogy, while apt, isn't always historically accurate. Brecht means for Ui's blackmailing Dogsborough (David Cope) for power in Chicago to imply that Hitler blackmailed President Hindenburg in order to become chancellor, which is not necessarily true. Also, Brecht's meticulous parallel fails to take into account anti-Semitism...
Massacusetts Chancellor of Higher Education Franklyn G. Jennifer blamed the exclusion of women and minority award finalists on their lack of representation on the faculties of the state's 27 colleges, The Associated Press reported...
Nonetheless, some countries remain undeterred. Mediobanca, the leading Italian merchant bank, with assets of $130 million, is still expected to go on the block sometime next year. In Britain, despite the BP setback, Chancellor Lawson last week predicted that privatization would go "from strength to strength." The next item of government business is privatization of Britain's $76 billion worth of electrical utilities...
Just one year ago, the London Stock Exchange celebrated Big Bang, the introduction of computerized and deregulated stock trading. The anniversary last week was a Big Bath. Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson complained that he did not know why London "should be following Wall Street quite so slavishly." Samuel Brittan, widely respected economic commentator for the Financial Times, ventured a prediction that the stock slump would clip half a point off Britain's 3.0% projected growth rate next year. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called for a healthy dose of budgetary realism in Washington, and Chancellor Lawson reminded tight-fisted...