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Four punishing years into her six-year term, Aquino remains surprisingly undaunted by the precarious state of her country and her tenuous grip on the helm. Her government is struggling to cope with a store of major problems -- economic, political and security-related -- which have created a growing crisis of confidence among liberal activists over the ability of fragile democratic institutions to deliver reform...
Hoping to bring the success he demonstrated on the high school football field to the college gridiron, the University recently appointed longtime coach Edward Schluntz to take the helm of Harvard's freshman team...
Vest's resume, others confirm, contains a fairly impressive list of accomplishments. When Vest takes over the helm at MIT, he ends a two year stint as provost of the University of Michigan. Prior to that he was Michigan's dean of engineering from...
...retire, you're finished," a crusty William Jovanovich often told his nail-biting subordinates. Yet last week, after 34 years at the helm of book-publishing giant Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1989 sales: $1.8 billion), the 70-year-old iconoclast finally buckled. He passed his chairmanship to HBJ board member John Herrington, a former U.S. Energy Secretary. "The burden was too great, and Bill had had enough," explains another director. "He was also getting...
Greenwald denied the widespread industry rumor that his decision was influenced by the apparent reluctance of Iacocca, 65, to retire anytime soon. The Chrysler chairman seems determined to stay at the helm until he pulls off another comeback for the company, which is suffering from weak sales and profits. Greenwald is the third top Chrysler executive to leave in the past month, following Michael Hammes, 48, the head of international operations, and Frederick Zuckerman, 55, the corporate treasurer. The exodus has prompted suspicion of an internal dispute over Chrysler's strategy, most notably whether the automaker should seek a merger...