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...nearly every opportunity. In Dublin, he gave a new answer to a longstanding Soviet proposal that the superpowers sign a pledge not to use force to settle international disputes. In the past, the U.S. has dismissed the idea as meaningless, since the notion is already embodied in the Charter of the United Nations. Reagan told the Irish parliament that "if discussions on reaffirming the principle .. . will bring the Soviet Union to negotiate agreements which will give concrete new meaning to that principle, we will gladly enter into such discussions." The President also declared that he was "prepared to halt...
...student activities, the Council earned the respect of many administrators and undergraduates. Kieval remembers March of his sophomore year, when plans for the nascent organization were placed under students' doors. "I always thought that student government was a joke," he says, adding that when he read the Undergraduate Council charter, "something in my mind clicked. I said this is it, this is good. I must get involved. This was a way for students to start expressing their opinion and maybe be taken seriously." Kieval won a Winthrop House seat the next fall, and went on to become Council historian...
...first a Puritan Seminary, became enmeshed in pitched theological battles as other denominations won seats on the governing boards. At the end of the 17th century, President Increase Mather fought unsuccessfully to turn the College into a Calvinist seminary. He failed, but after King William III nullified the College Charter in 1697, the debate began in the legislature. Mather continued to try to block non-Congregationalists from serving on the Corporation but still failed to have his wishes put in writing. Ultimately he was forced to resign...
...dismissal began one of the periodic battles between the Corporation and the Overseers--which continued until 1865--over who should be appointed president. The Corporation nominated John Leverett, but the religiously conservative legislature blocked his appointment--which they could legally do because Harvard was operating without a charter. But Governor Thomas Dudley was a friend of Leverett's, and he overrode the King's order, disempowering Leverett's opponents, and paving the way for his friend's presidency...
...savvy, functioning smoothly despite a missed May paycheck. Mondale's campaign staff, once a model of well-funded Scandinavian efficiency, is fraying. The payroll has been cut by 30% this month. Last week, for the first time this year, Mondale and his aides passed up their expensive charter jet to fly Republic Airlines east from Los Angeles...