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Bush generated further friction as he assembled his governing team. Just as the capital anointed James Baker as de facto deputy President, Bush broke away from his old friend and campaign manager. Against Baker's advice, he passed over his current lieutenant, Craig Fuller, 37, for the job of White House chief of staff and turned to an outsider, New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, 49. Fuller, who had served Bush for four years, responded by quitting...
Some observers think that Ramos, who this week becomes by Executive Order a de facto deputy commander of the armed forces, second in power only to Aquino, harbors his own ambitions for the presidential election scheduled for 1992. A recent poll gives him the highest approval rating of all officials in the country; he outpolled Aquino 79% to 73%. Amid rumors that Cory wants to kick him upstairs, might Ramos abandon her sinking ship of state first? "No," he said. Pause. Smile. "But then, I am a very good swimmer...
Both sides are already touting their contenders. The left will unite behind Jesse Jackson, who should be the de facto front-runner for the next three years. But Jackson will not win the nomination. Although most Jackson supporters are ardent, the marginal supporters--myself included--who chose him only because of the mediocrity of the 1988 field will jump ship if offered a more attractive candidate...
...especially pleasing to find that the one exception in recent years to the Department's de facto refusal to tenure from within is a stellar teacher whose course, Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice", is a staple of many undergraduate academic diets. Sandel not only earns top CUE guide ratings year after year, but is also a professor whose presence at lectures would not be redundant if his notes were typed, xeroxed and passed out at the start of the semester. He makes teaching a process, carefully engaging his students in questions of political theory. Learning is therefore not something done passively...
...Redding -- and Jackie Wilson. He was my favorite." All the members of UB40 have known one another since their shared childhoods in Balsall Heath, a predominantly black neighborhood near the center of Birmingham. "It was a slum," says Campbell, but Brian Travers, who plays sax and acts as de facto spokesman, cautions, "Don't get the idea that we grew up poor, because we didn't. We didn't go hungry and have holes in our shoes or anything...