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...have just discovered their affections are reciprocated, they can't quite believe their luck. Before the former Chancellor of the Exchequer became Prime Minister in June, large swaths of the party faithful viewed him with trepidation. He'd made a good fist of his 10-year tenure at the helm of the British economy, most agreed, but wasn't he too brainy, too dour to win over the wider electorate...
...Katherine’s our most consistent passer and highest digger,” said volleyball head coach Jennifer Weiss. “She plays with a lot of personality, and she’s a great player.” Weiss, in her fifteenth year at the helm of the women’s volleyball program, first met Kocurek when the standout libero was a junior at Kingwood High School in Kingwood, Texas. “She sat in my office and said, ‘I love Harvard. I love everything about it. I want...
...period when unequaled media attention, including television programs like Sex and the City, has produced a culture more fashion savvy than ever before. Katz and comrades Ann Stordahl, executive vice president of women's apparel, and Neva Hall, executive vice president of stores?the troika of women at the helm of Neiman Marcus?stayed ahead of the crowd with flying jewel tones...
...Benedict H. Gross ’71, who left the deanship this summer, was different. A quiet advocate for undergraduates in the face of occasionally fearsome resistance from fellow administrators, Gross spent his five years at the helm assembling an impressive legacy. Beyond the physical monuments to his tenacity—the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub, the Lamont Library Café, the Student Organizations Center at Hilles, and the New College Theater—Gross presided over the most productive half-decade of curricular change in recent years...
...When Petraeus offered the good news that he soon would order a 2,000-Marine unit home, Senator Biden, the Delaware Democrat at the helm of the foreign relations session, noted that the unit was simply coming to the end of its scheduled combat tour. "They are scheduled to come out," Petraeus conceded, "but I could have easily requested an extension of them...