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Hopefully these efforts will continue throughout the rest of the year, with the BSA taking the forefront in issues at Harvard and throughout the community. The group will gain prestige and a reputation for unity and coherence rather than an image focused on dissent...
Only five times before has the world tried to peer through the Kremlin's wall of secrecy to witness a changing of the guard.* The sixth transition, which brought Chernenko to the forefront, was announced at 1:57 p.m. Moscow time last Monday. It was as full of imponderables as any that had gone before. Why, for example, had the tiny circle of men who rule the Soviet Union risked another short-term regime and picked Chernenko, 72, the oldest man ever selected to hold the country's most important position? How would that choice affect the lives?and indeed...
...representative of the one sector in Soviet life that appears to work, Ustinov, 75, may have the best qualifications for the party's top job. During Andropov's decline, Ustinov had already moved to the forefront to enunciate official policy on arms control and Soviet missile deployment in Eastern Europe. A mechanical engineer who spent most of his career building up the defense industry, Ustinov is keenly aware of the chronic bottlenecks in Soviet production that have accounted for sluggish economic growth. Should the ruling elite feel nervous about turning the Soviet Union's pressing agenda of problems over...
Bastian has been in the forefront of those opposed to rotation. Only recently he demanded that those training to replace him and his fellow delegates be sent back to party headquarters where they would probably be more useful. By resigning his position within the party but not his seat in Parliament. Bastian avoids the possibility of being asked to step down prematurely. But his departure also decreases the membership of the Green delegation (to the Bundestag) to only 27 legislators, precariously close to the minimum for an active delegation; if only two more delegates leave the party, it will lose...
Suleiman says she thinks the three tenures of women last semester were "more of a coincidence than anything else," but credits Harvard for taking affirmative steps, both in hiring and in women's studies: "When Harvard does not think it is in the forefront of things, it acts...