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Kirkland House Master Tom C. Conley, a professor of Romance languages and literatures who teaches courses on film, said Jenkins’ time at the HFA’s helm would equip him well for the tasks awaiting in Chicago...
Hardly. Just six days after Van der Veer took the helm, internal memos leaked to the press suggested that other top Shell executives still in office, including Van der Veer, may have known about the reserves problem as early as two years ago. Van der Veer vigorously denied the charges but failed to calm the jangled nerves of Shell's institutional investors. And so the company was forced to ask itself an unpleasant question: How many times can you fire your CEO in a year...
...proposal calls for two adjoining rooms in a post-renovation Hilles Library. Just because Riverfolk currently balk at the idea of trekking up to the Quad does not mean that this will always be so, especially when those at the helm of the renovation are committed to making Hilles a vibrant, appealing destination for students...
...junior captain, fully recovered from the hand and knee injuries that sidelined him for three games in the second half of the 2003 campaign, returned to the helm of Harvard’s offense at the beginning of spring practice to find a number of familiar faces conspicuously absent from his receiving corps. Both Brian Edwards and Rodney Byrnes, the Crimson’s top receivers just one season ago with 47 and 33 catches, respectively, will miss off-season workouts completely after leaving the College...
...years of public service in which he fought tirelessly, if with limited success, to ensure that P.N.G.'s leaders served the people, not themselves. After a career as a rugby union captain, diplomat, reformist government minister and company director, Siaguru founded the P.N.G. chapter of Transparency International. From its helm and in his weekly newspaper column, he skewered high-placed crooks and urged his fellow citizens to demand fair play in business and politics. Two weeks before he died of cancer in Brisbane aged 57, he wrote to friends that P.N.G. needed people with the courage "to stand...