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...Bush’s nomination is approved by the Senate, Frazer will be placed at the helm of a delicate diplomatic operation, which in recent years has seen the United States open markets and free trade relations with Africa, and provide AIDS relief to its struggling nations...
Gray has received over 60 honorary degrees including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. She was the first woman named president of a major research university in this country, manning the helm of the University of Chicago from 1978-1993. She also served as an adviser to three Harvard presidents...
This season was different, and you could feel it. True, the Crimson had lost five talented seniors. But Angela Ruggiero and Lauren McAuliffe were steering the helm and they had a personal stake in returning to the championship game. Last season, the Bulldogs’ game-winner was shot past a sliding Ruggiero and a lunging McAuliffe, the puck flew over the first and past the latter before finding the back of the net on an impossible angle...
...University launched a full-fledged search for a new treasurer last fall, when current Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel announced that he would step down at the end of June after 15 years at the helm...
...editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, who spent 40 years reporting, writing, editing and managing at Time Inc.; in Alameda, Calif. He started as a stringer for TIME in his native St. Louis, Mo., and later worked for TIME and LIFE in cities across the U.S. In 1954 he took the helm at Time Inc.'s new magazine devoted to sports, which was viewed by many as a risky endeavor but became a profit-making venture after 10 years...