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Erik Farrar was named Harvard men’s and women’s water polo coach by Director of Athletics Robert Scalise on Tuesday, less that one month removed from Scott Russell’s controversial dismissal after just one season at the helm...
...first, I questioned these statistics. Women’s family commitments, I initially thought, makes it harder for them to take the helm of companies and states. But I soon found that the tug-of-war between work and home no longer tells the full story: Women today are entering the business and political spheres in droves...
...East African major cities, has an elite comprised of the country’s black leadership and Indian (and other Asian) merchants. Many novelists enchanted, or horrified, or bemused by the old English and French colonies of Africa have characteristically placed neither Africans nor their colonial masters at the helm of colony or independent state. Graham Greene saw Syrians controlling both the legitimate economy and the black market in his rendering of a British colony in West Africa. For Evelyn Waugh’s archetypical, if imagined, post-independence “Azania,” it was the Armenians...
More than ever, investors of modest means who are looking for financial advice will have to go it alone. That's the lesson behind last week's sacking of CEO David Pottruck at discount brokerage Charles Schwab. Since taking the sole helm at Schwab 14 months ago, Pottruck has been unable to make the firm's middle-market strategy pay. And with onetime everyman firms like Dean Witter gone and Merrill Lynch refocused on the rich, it's not clear that anyone will step up with a full plate of services for ordinary folks...
...when I examine the man, I see someone who was simply well centered. Samuel D. Hopper Palmdale, California, U.S. Reagan's White House years were America's best. We were proud of ourselves, our country and our President. We felt secure in the knowledge that Reagan was at the helm of the nation. I don't think we will ever see the likes of him again. He was a man for the ages. Penny Barwick Orange Park, Florida, U.S. Reagan was not a saint. he traded illegal arms to the contra militia in Nicaragua. He increased the gap between rich...