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Whatever the shortcomings of the Chamorro government, they pale in comparison with the Sandinistas' shameless pillaging of the country during the two months between their electoral defeat and the day Violeta Barrios de Chamorro took the helm. Nicaraguans refer to those rapacious weeks as "la pinata," after the papier-mache animals that children whack with a stick so they can plunder the candy stuffed inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sandinistas' Greedy Goodbye | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

When Jack R. Meyer took the helm from Walter M. Cabot '55 last July, he inherited a fast-growing endowment and a skyrocketing venture capital portfolio that had flourished in the 1980s...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Endowment Struggles in Recession | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Harvard had gone through its previous two seasons behind the strong arm of seniors Tom Yohe '89 and Tim Perry '90, but in this new year, no one emerged decisively at the helm of the Crimson offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exhilaration, Angst, Glory And Suffering in 1990-91 | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

When Robert D. Putnam took the helm of the Kennedy School of Government in 1989, he was heralded as an able academic who would lead the institution into the next decade...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: K-School Dean Resigns After a Rough Two Years | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Every 20 years or so, a new president takes the helm of Harvard University with visionary plans to build or strengthen one of the institution's pillars...

Author: By Philip P. Pan and Maggie S. Tucker, S | Title: The Rudenstine Vision | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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