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...statements trouble some who want to see students participate in administrative searches. The dean of the College has either overseen or been heavily involved in every recent search committee that has included students, so opposition from Lewis would likely be fatal to student participation...
Coles has also triumphed over physical adversity. After a near fatal motorcycle accident in 1977, doctors told him he would never walk again unaided. But Coles struggled back and is today a champion bicyclist; he once set a Southern transcontinental record for his 11-day trek from Savannah, Georgia, to San Diego. Says Coles campaign manager Kate Head: "This is a guy who believes in the American Dream...
...Look--set jaw, icy stare--and is frozen out. "It usually happens only once," says Will. And heaven forbid, don't call her Liddy--that's only for those who knew her when she was in pigtails. Lesley Stahl got the Look that chills when she made that fatal error on 60 Minutes...
...about Broderick. In his nearly 20 years at the FAA, Broderick was a tough, respected administrator, and his supporters believe he is being sacrificed on the altar of public relations. But others claim that he could be unyielding and slow to acknowledge problems. For instance, it took two fatal crashes before he had the agency investigate wing-deicing difficulties on turboprop commuter ATR-42 planes--a trouble spot the NTSB flagged after the first crash...
...Brossard, although he has called himself Pouliot for many years--survives. But who, in 1989, still wants to punish him for his past by killing him? Brossard assumes that Jewish money is behind this attempt on his life. That belief, a measure of his reflexive anti-Semitism, will have fatal consequences...