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Several programs which examine scholarshipthrough "the gender lens"--including the Committeeon Degrees in Women's Studies in the Faculty ofArts and Sciences and the new Women and PublicPolicy Program at the Kennedy School--would gain acohesive hub, controlling academic overlap withinthe University. The move would also further theRudenstinian legacy of fostering interfacultyinitiatives...
...What strikes me the most is that transformation that takes place in the group. Some people apply diffidently, and they gain passion and confidence [during the conference]," Wilson said...
Into this seething mess steps President Bill Clinton, whose two-day summit meeting with Yeltsin is scheduled to begin Tuesday. Neither President stood to gain much presidential luster from the meeting, since Yeltsin is politically moribund and Clinton is scandal-scarred and unable to offer the Russians serious assistance. U.S. officials fretted about the meeting until the last moment, wondering whether Yeltsin would still be in office when they arrived at the Kremlin, or whether he might quit as soon as they left...
...former Prime Minister to come out publicly last summer with his plan to run for President in 2000. They confirm that the two met to discuss the future shortly before Yeltsin fired Kiriyenko and his whole Cabinet. Unlikely to be anything but lackluster on the stump, Chernomyrdin would now gain enormous advantage in a potential electoral struggle with more dynamic campaigners like retired General Alexander Lebed if Yeltsin were to quit and make him acting chief executive. By one account, it was Berezovsky too who unexpectedly called on Vice Prime Minister Anatoli Chubais, the most pugnacious reformer in the Cabinet...
...year ago, the Teachers launched six open-end mutual funds, and so far they have been standouts. The Growth Equity fund and the Growth and Income fund are both up 21% since inception last September through last week, vs. an 18.5% gain for the Standard & Poor's 500, Morningstar reports. Ordinarily, I wouldn't write about a fund with less than a year's history. But these are irresistible in their simplicity, low expenses and minimums, proven record on the institutional side and now market-beating numbers on the retail side...