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...staying with the aforementioned randomness theme, the two most accomplished actors of the crew, Ted Danson and Martin Short, appear briefly in quirky antagonistic roles; Danson as the self-centered, insensitive Jeremy Brockett and Short as attorney Lional Dillard, who is at the forefront of opposition to Doctor Mumford's questionable practice. On a more cheerful note, Short and Danson, in each of their shining five-minute cameos, provide glimpses of some much-needed comic relief...
Natasha Gurfinkel had moxie. Nothing if not aggressive as a senior vice president in charge of the Bank of New York's East European division, the Russian-born, Princeton-educated businesswoman charmed and cajoled, wined and dined her way to the forefront of the correspondent banking business in the heady days of Russia's breakaway from communism. Muscling out American rivals through her web of Moscow connections, she turned the Bank of New York into the biggest U.S. servicer of Russian accounts, moving along the flood tide of cash rolling out of the ebullient new economy in return for lucrative...
...administrators now say that it was the Kennedy Administration, the Great Society and consciousness-raising of the 1960s that brought the issue of race to the forefront. The Harvard admissions office responded full steam ahead, changing its recruiting strategies "almost overnight," according...
Harvard's relative silence on the aid issue for so many months was worrisome. But it now seems that administrators may have merely been taking the time to put together a comprehensive plan that puts Harvard at the forefront of those colleges committed to need-blind admissions policy. Sept...
...class of '99 rallied fervently onbehalf of conservative causes as well. In responseto PUCC, Eric M. Nelson '99 formed another councilcoalition called Harvard Students First to steerthe council back towards student-focused issues.In 1997, the student body elected Beth A. Stewart'00 council president, who pushed student servicesto the forefront ahead of activism. The electionsuggested that the student body was lessinterested in political causes than it had been inpreceding years...