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...nation's 88th largest corporation--is viewed as an oddity whose personal behavior needs to be scrutinized to explain her unusual success. Only when the number of women in the boardroom roughly equals that of men will Mary Cunningham's accomplishments--and not her blonde hair--be the focal point of debate...
...tranquil facade cannot conceal the fact that the gulf has become a focal point of geopolitical tension. The demise of Iran as a regional superpower has left the area in a vacuum; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has stirred fear. If the vision of a clash between Moscow and Washington over oil is the ultimate nightmare of gulf leaders, Iran's revolution has raised immediate concerns over regional rivalry and internal stability...
When professors make news, it's usually in arcane subjects of interest only to their colleagues. But several academics found themselves the focal points of widespread media attention this summer in areas as diverse as nuclear energy, the Iranian hostage crisis, and sexual depravity...
When professors make news, it's usually in arcane subjects of interest only to their colleagues. But several academics found themselves the focal points of widespread media attention this summer in areas as diverse as nuclear energy, the Iranian hostage crisis, and sexual depravity...
...giving Gdansk the festive look of a holiday. But traffic was only a trickle of the normal midday rush. At high noon on a working day, the streets were almost empty of people. The only crowd converged on the Lenin Shipyard, the center of the strike and the focal point of the nationwide crisis. TIME Eastern Europe Correspondent Barry Kalb visited the strike scene...