Word: czars
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Epps, who recently completed his first year as the College's race relations czar, said the readings and discussion sessions were an important part of the administration's effort to improve race relations on campus. The essays, the dean said, touch on four themes that he considers vital in a diverse academic community: the individual, freedom, diversity and community. "The discussions are meant to take place outside and be a period of quiet reflection on some serious writings," Epps said...
...found three boxes of documents from a General Motors subsidiary in the apartment of former employee Jorge Alvarez Aguirre, now with Volkswagen, and a feud brewing for four months flared into a bitter brawl. Alvarez was one of seven executives who last spring defected to Volkswagen with GM purchasing czar Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. "I cannot say that the papers we found were secret," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office in Darmstadt. "But I can say with certainty that the papers did not belong to ((Alvarez))." Speaking through his attorney, Alvarez said the boxes contained...
...Czar's Bones...
British and Russian forensic scientists have determined beyond all doubt that bones discovered two years ago at Ekaterinburg in the Urals are those of Czar Nicholas II and his family, murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. DNA from the remains was compared with that of samples taken later from Romanov descendants -- among them Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The tests shed no light, however, on the fates of the young Prince Alexei and Princess Anastasia, who may have survived the execution...
President Clinton has chosen his AIDS czar. Kristine Gebbie, a former Washington State secretary of health and a member of Ronald Reagan's presidential commission on AIDS, will coordinate the Federal Government's response to the epidemic...