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...nation's No. 2 opera house hit rock bottom last Feb. 9. That afternoon the general director of the San Francisco Opera, Terence McEwen, announced his resignation because of ill health after a troubled six-year stint at the helm of the company. A few hours later, McEwen's predecessor, the autocratic Kurt Herbert Adler, died of a heart attack. The Viennese-born Adler had ruled the organization like a private satrapy for 28 years and had remained its irascible eminence grise. Suddenly the troupe was leaderless and, it seemed to many, artistically rudderless as well...
Kenneth Ryder, Northeastern's fourth president, said in an annual address that he would leave office as soon as a replacement could be found to take the university's helm. The outgoing president, who is widely looked upon as a national leader in education issues, said a search committee composed of faculty, students, administrators and alumni would soon seek his successor...
...taking the helm at Brown, he will face yet another challenge. The school, which has the smallest endowment in the Ivy League, also has a reputation for offering an education without requirements and for being popular while providing little structure. Educators and colleagues say Gregorian will have to increase the endowment in order to attract the kind of faculty and students the school needs to improve its image...
After Goldwater's landslide loss to Lyndon Johnson, Schlafly looked to another conservative to help solve "the mess in Washington." And after seven-and-a-half years at the helm, Reagan hasn't disappointed this homemaker. "I'm terribly pleased with Reagan. I think he's the greatest thing of this century," Schlafly said...
RONALD Reagan has been one of the most popular presidents in history. His general election victories over Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984 were both by very large margins. And during his eight years at the helm, President Reagan has associated with more crooks than Frank Sinatra...