Word: ex-chancellor
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...university: the worlds leading repository of higher learning, and the social and economic power that comes with it. Harvard, they aptly point out, is held as a symbol of American higher education to be both rallied around and railed against by thousands. They quote Clark Kerr, the legendary ex-Chancellor of the University of California-Berkeley: Somebody needs to know everything about each college and university but only about Harvard does everybody need to know something...
...happen?" the German ex-Chancellor Prince von Bulow asked his successor at the outbreak of the First World...
...Socialists treated the controversy gingerly. Only recently did Steyrer begin to allude openly to the damage a Waldheim victory could inflict on the country's reputation. WITH STEYRER, ALL OF AUSTRIA WINS proclaimed one campaign poster. Bruno Kreisky, the Socialist ex-Chancellor, last week appealed to his countrymen not to vote for Waldheim. Asked Kreisky: "Didn't we always have decent Presidents whom we could show in public...
Just who belongs to this articulate elite? One favorite is Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, knowledgeable, funny and fast on his feet. Of the Cabinet, Brinkley singles out Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. Among foreign leaders, Brinkley and Kalb prize West Germany's ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. "He's the TV era's ideal West German Chancellor," says Kalb, since Schmidt speaks English well and can be "irritable and irritating." Kalb also finds Menachem Begin fascinating because "he says what he feels." Interesting historical question: Would the Middle East have been different, at least in American eyes...
...only half joking. Since becoming Chancellor 18 months ago, he has stood somewhat aloof from his Social Democratic Party, refusing to get involved in the endless theoretical debates on how democratic socialism should be built. Instead, the cool, pragmatic Chancellor has concentrated on managing West Germany's affairs of state. Although Schmidt has always been highly regarded by the voters (in one recent poll, 70% of the West Germans gave him a favorable rating), he has never been popular with his party's left wing, the Jusos (Young Socialists). Complicating matters, ex-Chancellor Willy Brandt, who remains...