Word: forcefullness
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Last week, for example, the President said he hopes to "convince people that they should revisit some of the issues that were involved in Proposition 209," California's anti-affirmative action initiative; but when it was actually on the ballot and forceful opposition might have cost him some votes in...
Ford has generated a lot of loot for Paramount over the years, playing various Indiana Jones or Tom Clancy heroes. The star reminded Paramount of that in a Forceful call to studio boss Jonathan Dolgen, in which he requested that Dolgen kindly get Titanic the hell out of his way...
Harvard has always been known for being of unparalleled quality in scholarship. Some have worried that it will be in danger of losing this reputation if it takes affirmative and forceful steps to increase the rate at which it tenures women. This danger will surface only if it fails to...
A People's Tragedy (Viking; 923 pages; $39.95), by Orlando Figes, a historian at Trinity College, Cambridge, deals vividly with starvation, disease, tribal hatreds, sociopathic blood lust, religious mania, governmental terrorism and most other sources of human misery. But the author's predominant diagnosis of what went wrong, on all...
DIED. NANCY WOODHULL, 52, journalistic champion of women; of cancer; in Pittsford, New York. Beginning as a newspaper reporter, she rose through the ranks to become president of Gannett News Service, a founding editor of USA Today and editor in chief of Time Warner's Southern Progress Corp., where she...